Jerramungup, Western Australia

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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2012}}

{{Infobox Australian place | type = town

| name = Jerramungup

| state = wa

| image = Tobruk Road, Jerramungup, 2018 (01).jpg

| caption = Tobruk Road, Jerramungup, 2018

| lga = Shire of Jerramungup

| local_map = yes

| zoom = 9

| coordinates = {{coord|33.942|S|118.919|E|display=inline,title}}

| postcode = 6337

| est = 1953

| pop = |pop_year =

| area = {{cvt |input=P2046}}

| elevation= 322

| stategov = Roe

| fedgov = O'Connor

| dist1 = 454

| dir1 = SE

| location1= Perth

| dist2 = 84

| dir2 = E

| location2= Gnowangerup

| dist3 = 66

| dir3 = NW

| location3= Bremer Bay

| near-nw = Pingrup

| near-n = Pingrup

| near-ne = Jacup

| near-w = Needilup

| near-e = Fitzgerald River NP

| near-sw = Needilup

| near-s = Gairdner

| near-se = Fitzgerald River NP

}}

Jerramungup 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=}} Jerramungup is {{convert|454|km|mi|0}} southeast of Perth and {{convert|6|km|mi|0}} west of the Gairdner River.

The area was settled by Europeans prior to 1848, with the first homestead being built by John Hassell in 1848. The property was known as Jarramongup Station and was inherited by his son, Albert Young Hassell, who took up residence there with his wife Ethel after his father's death in 1885.Izett, EK 2014, '[https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/breaking-new-ground-early-australian-ethnography-in-colonial-wome Breaking new ground: early Australian ethnography in colonial women's writing]', Doctor of Philosophy. The station was put up for sale by Edney Hassell and remained on the market for some time until it was acquired by the state government in 1950.{{cite web|url=http://jerramungup.wa.gov.au/download/90|title=Shire of Jerramungup - Municipal Inventory|access-date=30 August 2015|publisher=Shire of Jerramungup|archive-date=17 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317053403/http://jerramungup.wa.gov.au/download/90|url-status=dead}}

The town of Jerramongup was established in 1953 to support a war service land settlement project that was initiated in 1949.{{cite news |title=887 Servicemen Given Farms |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49886848 |access-date=22 January 2022 |work=The West Australian |date=19 October 1954 |location=Perth WA |page=20}} The townsite was gazetted as Jerramungup on 12 August 1957, although the name Jerramongup remained in use until the 1960s. The local school was renamed Jerramungup in 1968.{{cite web |title=WA State School Teachers 1900-1980 |url=https://www.carnamah.com.au/teachers?keyword=jerramongup |publisher=Carnamah Historical Society |access-date=22 January 2022}}{{cite journal |title=New Townsite - Jerramungup |journal=Government Gazette of Western Australia |date=16 August 1957 |volume=73 |page=2469 |url=https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/prod/gazettestore.nsf/FileURL/gg1957_073.pdf/$FILE/Gg1957_073.pdf |access-date=22 January 2022}}{{cite web|title= Shire of Jerramungup Local Planning Strategy |website=Western Australian Planning Commission|publisher=Shire of Jerramungup |url=http://www.planning.wa.gov.au/dop_pub_pdf/jerramungup2_local_planning_strategy.pdf |access-date=24 January 2015|page=12|date=13 June 2006}}{{cite web|last1=Goode|first1=Brad|title=Report of an ethnographic aboriginal heritage survey of the Hamersley Drive upgrade and materials extraction pits within the Fitzgerald River National Park and Hopetoun, Western Australia|url=http://www.epa.wa.gov.au/EIA/EPAReports/Documents/1396/Att%2022%20-%20HeritageEthnographicReport_Goode2010.pdf|website=Environmental Protection Authority|publisher=Brad Goode and Associates Pty Ltd|access-date=15 January 2015|location=Dunsborough, WA|date=2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924001352/http://www.epa.wa.gov.au/EIA/EPAReports/Documents/1396/Att%2022%20-%20HeritageEthnographicReport_Goode2010.pdf|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}

The town hall and the school were both built in 1958 along with two houses. Construction of the Cooperative Bulk Handling wheat bin was completed in 1961. The first powerhouse was completed in 1963.

Jerramungup (Yarra-mo-up) is an Aboriginal word said to mean "place of the tall yate trees".{{cite book|author1=Forrest, Roni|author2=Crowe, Stuart|title=Yarra-mo-up, Place of the Tall Yate Trees: A Report on the Noongar Social History of the Jerramungup Region|date=1996|publisher=Australian Government Pub. Service [for Australian Heritage Commission]}} The yate tree (Eucalyptus cornuta) is an evergreen tree that grows to a height of 20 m with a diameter of one metre. It has orange bud caps and greenish yellow flowers, and is common in the southwest of WA.{{cite book|author1=Boland, Douglas J.|author2=McDonald, Maurice William|title=Forest Trees of Australia|date=2006|publisher=CSIRO Publishing|isbn=0643069690|page=334|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2v3kb9tFsYC&pg=PA334|chapter=Yate}} The name was first recorded by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe in 1848, when carrying out exploration of the area, noting that natives referred to the area and river as "Jeer-A-Mung-Up". Roe later named the river, at its mouth in Gordon Inlet, the Gairdner River.{{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 town hall was opened in April 1958 and is known colloquially as the "Root Pickers Hall" as it was paid for by volunteers picking mallee roots.{{cite web|title=Tourism: Jerramungup|url=http://www.jerramungup.wa.gov.au/tourism/jerramungup/|website=Shire of Jerramungup|access-date=15 January 2015|date=2015}}

200 tonnes of Laguna Verde or Laguna Green monzonite from Jerramungup were used to make the Australian War Memorial in London, which was opened in Hyde Park in 2003. The quarry is situated 21 km south of the town, at Wirrup Hill.{{cite web|author1=Siddall, Ruth|author2=Clements, Diana|title=The War Memorials at Hyde Park Corner and Green Park|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbrxs/Homepage/walks/HydeParkCorner.pdf|website=University College London|access-date=25 January 2015|location=London|page=4|date=2013}}