Gairdner, Western Australia
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox Australian place | type = town
| name = Gairdner
| state = wa
| image =
| caption =
| lga = Shire of Jerramungup
| local_map = yes
| zoom = 9
| coordinates = {{coord|34.2120|S|118.9378|E|display=inline,title}}
| postcode = 6337
| est = 1960
| pop =
| area = {{cvt |input=P2046}}
| elevation= 176
| maxtemp =
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| rainfall =
| stategov = Roe
| fedgov = O'Connor
| dist1 = 484
| dir1 = SE
| location1= Perth
| dist2 = 31
| dir2 = S
| location2= Jerramungup
| dist3 = 46
| dir3 = NW
| location3= Bremer Bay
| near-nw = Needilup
| near-n = Jerramungup
| near-ne = Fitzgerald River NP
| near-w = Boxwood Hill
| near-e = Fitzgerald River NP
| near-sw = Boxwood Hill
| near-s = Boxwood Hill
| near-se = Bremer Bay
}}
Gairdner is a town and locality in the Shire of Jerramungup, Great Southern region of Western Australia.{{cite web |url=https://maps.slip.wa.gov.au/landgate/locate/ |title=SLIP Map |author= |date= |website=maps.slip.wa.gov.au |publisher=Landgate |access-date=15 October 2024 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://nationalmap.gov.au/ |title=NationalMap |author= |date= |website=nationalmap.gov.au |publisher=Geoscience Australia |access-date=15 October 2024 |quote=}} The town is located between Jerramungup and Boxwood Hill along the South Coast Highway, on Devil Creek, a tributary of the Bremer River.
The surrounding area was opened up by the state government for settlement in the 1950s. The primary school, the first building at what was to be the Gairdner townsite, was established in 1960. Prior to 1960, students attended school at Jerramungup. The name of the townsite was approved by the Minister of Lands in 1978.{{LandInfo WA|c|G|2011-05-02}}
The town is named after the Gairdner River`(25 km to the east), which was named by John Septimus Roe while on an expedition in the area in 1848. He named it after Gordon Gairdner, Senior Clerk of the Australian and Eastern Departments in the Colonial Office, later Chief Clerk of the Colonial Office and Secretary and Registrar of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.{{cite journal | title = Colonial Office, Downing Street, May 28, 1874. | journal = The London Gazette | date = 29 May 1874 | issue = 24099| page = 2820| url = http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/24099/pages/2820/page.pdf | format = pdf | access-date = 2012-03-28}} Roe also named Mount Gordon and Gordon Inlet (at the mouth of the Gairdner River) after Gairdner.{{cite journal |last1=Roe |first1=John Septimus |author1-link=John Septimus Roe |title=Report of an Expedition under the Surveyor-General, Mr. J[ohn] S[eptimus] Roe, to the South-Eastward of Perth, in Western Australia, between the months of September, 1848, and February, 1849, to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary. |journal=Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London |date=26 November 1849 |volume=XXII |pages=1-57 |access-date=26 October 2021 |url=https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1305031h.html|location=London}}
The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbh.com.au/media/120302/cbh%20receival%20sites%20-%20contact%20details.pdf |title=CBH receival sites |year=2011 |access-date=1 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318082458/https://www.cbh.com.au/media/120302/cbh%20receival%20sites%20-%20contact%20details.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2012 }}