Scaddan is a small town and
locality in
Western Australia
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located east of
Perth
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situated just off the
Coolgardie-Esperance Highway between
Norseman and
Esperance in the
Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The Kendall Road, Speddingup East and Truslove Townsite Nature Reserves are located within Scaddan.
The area was originally known as Thirty Mile, because of its distance from Esperance. The British settled the area before 1914 and were commonly using the name Scaddan at around that time. The name of the
post office
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was changed from Thirty Mile to Scaddan in 1915 and by 1916 a school and hall had been built in the town. The government delayed declaring the town until the route of the
Norseman–Esperance railway was settled. The townsite was finally gazetted in 1924.
[''Western Australian Government Gazette'', file 2007/14, 15 February 1924, p.275.]
The town is named after
John "Happy Jack" Scaddan, the
premier
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A premier will normally be a head of govern ...
of Western Australia from 1911 to 1916 and a prominent advocate of the Esperance railway.
Nature reserves
The following
nature reserves are located within Scaddan. Kendall Road and Truslove Townsite Nature Reserves are located within the
Mallee bioregion, while the Speddingup East Nature Reserve is located in the
Esperance Plains bioregion:
* Kendall Road Nature Reserve was gazetted on 1 December 1967 and has a size of .
* Speddingup East Nature Reserve was gazetted on 24 May 1968 and has a size of .
* Truslove Townsite Nature Reserve, only partially located within Scaddan, was gazetted on 4 February 1966 and has a size of .
References
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Shire of Esperance