Brunswick Junction

Brunswick Junction
State :  Australia State : Western Australia Founded : 1898
Coordinates : 33 ° 15 ′  S , 115 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 15 ′  S , 115 ° 50 ′  E
Residents : 772 (2016)
Time zone : AWST (UTC + 8) Postal code : 6224 LGA : Shire of Harvey
Brunswick Junction

Brunswick Junction is a city in the South West region of Western Australia , Australia .

geography

Brunswick Junction is on the South Western Highway between the towns of Bunbury and Harvey . The city had 772 residents in 2016, 8% of whom are of Italian descent.

history

Already in 1830, before the city was founded, John Septimus Roe named the river north of the later city "Brunswick River". The river is named, and later also the city, after Duke Friedrich Wilhelm zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg , called the "Black Duke", under whose command the first Governor of Western Australia , James Stirling, served.

The first farm was built in 1842. A bridge over the "Brunswick River" was built at Austerlind, a district of Bunbury, to facilitate the settlers' access to the city.

In 1893, after the completion of the Perth - Bunbury Railway, the present urban area was uninhabited. The Brunswick Agricultural Association was formed and a school and coaching inn opened. In 1898 a junction to Collie was opened south of the river and a train station was built.

Today Brunswick Junction is best known for its milk production. The Brunswick Agricultural Show is one of the largest in Australia with up to 15,000 visitors.

Web links

Commons : Brunswick Junction, Western Australia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Brunswick (L) (Urban Center / Locality) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
2. ↑ History of the city names in Western Australia ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.