Elleker

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Elleker
Elleker WA railroad crossing - Mapillary (97DLSVYlCQ - E IaWdAL7g) .jpg
Railroad crossing at Elleker
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Western Australia.svg Western Australia
Coordinates : 35 ° 1 ′  S , 117 ° 43 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 1 ′  S , 117 ° 43 ′  E
Residents : 374 (2016)
Telephone code : (+61) AWST (UTC + 8)
Postal code : 6330
LGA : City of Albany
Elleker (Western Australia)
Elleker
Elleker

Elleker is a place in the Australian state of Western Australia . It is located about 12.2 kilometers west of Albany . The place is located in the traditional settlement area of ​​the Aboriginal tribe of the Mineng .

geography

View of Shelter Island

Torbay is to the west of the town , Sandpatch and Cuthbert to the east and Marbelup to the north . The offshore island Shelter Island also belongs to the place.

In the south, Elleker has a coastline of about 6.4 kilometers, of which about 1.4 kilometers consists of beach. These are called Hanging Rock and Port Hughes . In addition, Lake Powell and the Lake Powell Nature Reserve and the Shelter Island Nature Reserve are in Elleker.

History and etymology

There was a plan at the WA Land Company, the company that built the Great Southern Railway , in 1889 to build a town on what is now Elleker, which would be called Lakeside, since it would have been near Lake Powell. But this was not really successful. The government bought the railway line and redesigned the place. It was decided against it to use the name Lakeside, because one wanted to avoid confusion with another Lakeside near Kalgoorlie . Therefore, the station should now be called Torbay Junction .

In 1921 Western Australia Railways decided to rename the place to Ualungup , but because it was feared that it would sound too much like Yallingup , it was rejected. The Elleker and Lockyer alternatives were proposed and the Elleker name was adopted. The name was suggested by Mr. J Mowforth, a member of the Albany Road Board. This one is from Yorkeshire . The name is based on the town of Ellerker in Yorkeshire.

population

The place Elleker had a population of 374 people in 2016, of which 50.7% male and 49.3% female. 1.3% (five people) of these are Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders .

The average age in Elleker is 46 years, eight years more than the Australian average of 38 years.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Elleker ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Accessed June 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Town Names Landgate. Retrieved July 6, 2019