Midgegooroo National Park, formerly the Canning National Park, is a national park in the
Perth metropolitan region
The Perth metropolitan region or the Perth metropolitan area is the administrative area and geographical extent of the Western Australian capital city of Perth and its conurbation.
It generally includes the coastal strip from Two Rocks in th ...
of
Western Australia
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, south-east of
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
. It is located in the
City of Armadale
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, and part of the
Jarrah Forest
Jarrah forest is tall open forest in which the dominant overstory tree is ''Eucalyptus marginata'' (jarrah). The ecosystem occurs only in the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia. It is most common in the biogeographic region named in ...
bioregion.
Midgegooroo National Park was created as Class A reserve No. 47884 on 30 November 2004 with a size of as one of nine national parks proclaimed in the state that day.
The national park, on land whose
traditional owners
Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights ...
are the
Whadjuk
Whadjuk, alternatively Witjari, are Noongar (Aboriginal Australian) people of the Western Australian region of the Perth bioregion of the Swan Coastal Plain.
Name
The ethnonym appears to derive from ''whad'', the Whadjuk word for "no".
Countr ...
people, was renamed in 2008 after
Midgegooroo
Midgegooroo (died 22 May 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian elder of the Nyungar nation, who played a key role in Aboriginal resistance to white settlement in the area of Perth, Western Australia. Everything documented about Midgegooroo (various ...
, an
Australian Aboriginal elder
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executed in 1833 for his resistance to European settlement by the settlers. It was one of a number of national and regional parks to be renamed in the state at this point, among them the Pickering Brook National Park, which borders Midgegooroo to the north, and was renamed
Korung National Park
Korung National Park, formerly Pickering Brook National Park, is a national park in Western Australia. It is located 26 kilometres south-east of Perth,
The main features in the national park are
Canning Dam
The Canning Dam and reservoir provide a major fresh water resource for the city of Perth, Western Australia. The dam is situated on the Darling Scarp and is an impoundment of the Canning River. It is noted for its innovative structural and hydrau ...
and the
Munda Biddi Trail
The Munda Biddi Trail is a long-distance mostly off-road cycling trail in Western Australia. It runs for over from Mundaring to Albany. The completed Munda Biddi Trail opened end-to-end in April 2013 when it claimed the title of the longest c ...
, a long-distance mostly off-road cycling trail, which passes through the park.