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Also known as Wundowie, Western Australia, Wundowie, Western Australia, Australia, Wundowie, W.A.

Wundowie is a town in Western Australia located between Perth and Northam in the Darling Range. It was the location of an iron works, and siding and stopping place on the Eastern Railway.

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Wundowie is a town in Western Australia located between Perth and Northam in the Darling Range. It was the location of an iron works, and siding and stopping place on the Eastern Railway.

It was named in 1907 and was a siding on the Chidlow to Northam section of the railway. The origin of the name is from nearby Woondowing Spring which is an Aboriginal word thought to come from Ngwundow, meaning "to lie down".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wundowie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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