Eneabba, Western Australia
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Eneabba is a town on the Brand Highway
located 278 km north of Perth, Western Australia
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The area is famous for its spectacular display of wildflowers in the spring. It is also home to the Iluka Resources
mineral sands facility.
The first European visit to the area was in 1839 by the second George Grey
expedition along the west coast. Grey and his party were forced to walk through the area after their boats were lost. During his time in the area Grey named the Arrowsmith River
.
In 1870 the first settler, William Rowland, arrived from Greenough. He took up a 3,000 acre lease at Eneabba Springs and survived by shepherding, trapping horses and pigs and living on wild game.
The area around Eneabba was opened up for agricultural purposes in the 1950s. This in turn initiated the need for a town to be developed. The town was gazetted in 1961.
The name of the town comes from the aboriginal
name of the nearby Eneabba Springs. The meaning of the word is "small water". Early settler
s called the same spring "pocket knife spring" from a story of the amazing powers of a knife that was dropped in the spring.
Brand Highway
Brand Highway is a 362 kilometre main highway linking the northern outskirts of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, to the port city of Geraldton in Western Australia's Mid West region. Together with North West Coastal Highway, it forms part of the Western Australian coastal link to the...
located 278 km north of Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
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The area is famous for its spectacular display of wildflowers in the spring. It is also home to the Iluka Resources
Iluka Resources
Iluka Resources is a mining company involved in the mining and processing of titanium based and zircon products. The company mines heavy mineral sands and separates the concentrate into its individual mineral constituents rutile, ilmenite, leucoxene and zircon...
mineral sands facility.
The first European visit to the area was in 1839 by the second George Grey
George Grey
George Grey may refer to:*Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet , British politician*George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent *Sir George Grey , Governor of Cape Colony, South Australia and New Zealand...
expedition along the west coast. Grey and his party were forced to walk through the area after their boats were lost. During his time in the area Grey named the Arrowsmith River
Arrowsmith River
The Arrowsmith River in the Mid West region of Western Australia.The first European to discover the river was the explorer George Grey in 1839 who named it after the distinguished English geographer John Arrowsmith....
.
In 1870 the first settler, William Rowland, arrived from Greenough. He took up a 3,000 acre lease at Eneabba Springs and survived by shepherding, trapping horses and pigs and living on wild game.
The area around Eneabba was opened up for agricultural purposes in the 1950s. This in turn initiated the need for a town to be developed. The town was gazetted in 1961.
The name of the town comes from the aboriginal
Australian Aborigines
Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...
name of the nearby Eneabba Springs. The meaning of the word is "small water". Early settler
Settler
A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. Settlers are generally people who take up residence on land and cultivate it, as opposed to nomads...
s called the same spring "pocket knife spring" from a story of the amazing powers of a knife that was dropped in the spring.