One of the giant tingle trees in Walpole Noralup Park
Walpole , called Norlup until 1934 , is a town in Western Australia , 432 kilometers from Perth and 66 kilometers from Denmark . The place with 321 inhabitants can be reached on the South Western Highway .
The bay in which the town is located was discovered in 1831 by the captain Thomas Bannister . The first settler was Pierre Bellanger with his family in 1909 and part of this area was demarcated for a national park as early as 1910. Settlement on a larger scale began in the 1930s and the railroad reached this location in 1929.
Governor James Stirling named the place Walpole after Captain W. Walpole, who came to the area in 1808 on the HMS Warspite. Since it was later assumed that Walpole was already assigned as a city name in Tasmania , the place was officially named Nornalup. When it turned out in 1934 that there was no Walpole, the place was called Walpole again as it was originally.
today
The inhabitants of the place work in agriculture, fishing or for the tourists. The Bibbulmun Track runs through Walpole . The place and its surroundings have largely developed into a holiday area. In the vicinity there are sandy beaches and large deposits of the tall "Red Tingle" ( Eucalyptus jacksonii ) and carribrees ( Eucalyptus diversicolor ). These can on a treetop path of 40 meters from the numerous visitors Walpole-Nornalup National Park are viewed in a different perspective.
