Kununoppin is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia

Western Australia

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. The town is located on the Nungarin-Wyalkatchem Road and in the Shire of Trayning

Shire of Trayning

The Shire of Trayning is a Local Government Area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, about northwest of Merredin and about east of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and its seat of government is the town of Trayning.-History:...

 local government area, 257 kilometres (159.7 mi) north east of the state capital, Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

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. At the 2006 census

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, Kununoppin had a population of 151.

The site of a railway siding

Siding

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 on the Dowerin to Merredin railway, Kununoppin was gazetted as a townsite in 1911. The town's name derives from the Aboriginal name for the surrounding area. The name was first rendered as "Coonoonoppin"—the revised spelling of "Kununoppin" was adopted to conform with the Royal Geographical Society

Royal Geographical Society

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 standard orthography

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 for Aboriginal place names. (See -up

-up

-up is a suffix commonly found in place names in south western Western Australia.The suffix originated in a dialect of Noongar, an Indigenous Australian language, in which "-up" means "place of". The suffix "-in" or "-ing" has a similar meaning in a related dialect of Noongar...

 for further details).

The town—set in Salmon Gum

Eucalyptus salmonophloia

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 woodland—features a series of tin sculptures. The sculptures are placed in various locations around the town.