Moojebing is a locality on the Boyerine Creek in the
Great Southern region of
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
, southeast of
Woodanilling and north north west of
Katanning.
It is located within the
Shire of Katanning
The Shire of Katanning is a local government area in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, about north of Albany and about southeast of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and its seat of government is the tow ...
.
The name Moojebing is an Aboriginal word, believed to be derived from the nearby Moojebup Spring, first recorded under that name in 1874. The meaning of the name is not known, but may be connected with "moodjar" or "muja", the
Noongar
The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the so ...
word for the WA Christmas tree, ''
Nuytsia floribunda''. One source claims that Moojebing means "place of moojung birds", but that source is dubious, as there are no references to a "moojung" bird.
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History
Moojebing was one of a number of townsites established in the early 1890s, when the WA government opened up a lot of land in the Katanning area.[ The townsite was gazetted in 1892. It straddled the Great Southern railway, which had opened in 1889, and was also close to other townsites at Katanning, Woodanilling and Pinwernying.][
Demand for land in the townsite area was low, and in 1917 much of it was opened up for agricultural purposes.][
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See also
* CBH class
The CBH class is a class of diesel-electric freight locomotives designed and manufactured in the United States by MotivePower in Boise, Idaho, for Western Australian grain growers' co-operative CBH Group.
The CBH class was ordered to haul gra ...
– a class of locomotive, one of which is named after the locality
References
Great Southern (Western Australia)
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