North Bannister is a locality in the
Wheatbelt region of
Western Australia
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, south-southeast of the state capital,
Perth
Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...
along
Albany Highway
Albany Highway links Western Australia's capital city Perth with its oldest settlement, Albany, Western Australia, Albany, on the state's South coast of Western Australia, south coast. The highway travels through the southern Wheatbelt (Weste ...
between
Armadale and
Williams.
The locality's name honours
Thomas Bannister who discovered the nearby
Bannister River, a tributary of the
Hotham River, in 1830 while leading the first overland expedition from Perth to
King George Sound
King George Sound (Mineng ) is a sound (geography), sound on the south coast of Western Australia. Named King George the Third's Sound in 1791, it was referred to as King George's Sound from 1805. The name "King George Sound" gradually came in ...
(now
Albany). The name was applied to the river in 1832 by surveyor-general
John Septimus Roe.
References
Towns in Western Australia
Shire of Wandering
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