Bonnie Rock is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of

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. The town was once the terminus of the

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from Burakin. The name of the town originated from a rock formation that is situated close to the town, that was named by a

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cutter. The townsite was gazetted in 1932. A short-lived newspaper in the 1930s included the name of the town in its title. The main industry in the town is

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farming, with the town being a

CBH Group The CBH Group (commonly known as CBH, an acronym for Co-operative Bulk Handling) is a grain growers' cooperative that handles, markets and processes grain from the wheatbelt of Western Australia. History CBH was formed on 5 April 1933, at a ...

receival site. The Russian adventurer

Fyodor Konyukhov Fyodor Filippovich Konyukhov (; born 12 December 1951 in Chkalovo, Pryazovskyi Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian survivalist, voyager and marine explorer. In December 2010 he became an Eastern Orthodox priest in the Ukra ...

broke the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth in a hot air balloon in just over 11 days, landing safely near Bonnie Rock at about 4.30pm (local time) on 23 July 2016.

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{{authority control Wheatbelt (Western Australia) Grain receival points of Western Australia