Wonnerup, Western Australia

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Wonnerup

| state = wa

| image = C1701, Wonnerup, 1987.JPG

| caption = The last passenger train to Busselton passes through Wonnerup, January 1987.

| lga = City of Busselton

| local_map = yes

| zoom = 11

| coordinates = {{coord|33.62|S|115.4|E|display=inline,title}}

| postcode = 6280

| est = 1856

| pop =

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

| elevation= 94

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| stategov = Vasse

| fedgov = Forrest{{Cite web|url = http://apps.aec.gov.au/eSearch/LocalitySearchResults.aspx?filter=wonnerup&filterby=LocalityorSuburb|title = Australian Electoral Commission|access-date = 26 February 2015|website = AEC localities}}

| dist1 = 219 | dir1 = S | location1= Perth

| dist2 = 10 | dir2 = E | location2= Busselton

}}

The townsite of Wonnerup is located {{convert|219|km|mi|0}} south of Perth and {{convert|10|km|mi|0}} east of Busselton. It was gazetted a townsite in 1856,{{LandInfo WA|c|W|2007-06-08}} deriving its name from the nearby Wonnerup Inlet.

The name is Aboriginal, and has been shown on maps of the region since 1839. The meaning of the name is "place of the woman's digging or fighting stick"; the Noongar word for fighting stick is {{lang |nys |wonna}}, while the suffix -up denotes place of. The wonna was made from the peppermint tree, Agonis flexuosa, a coastal native found only in the south-west, and was a common trade item of the Noongar people.{{cite web|url=http://portal.water.wa.gov.au/portal/page/portal/WaterManagement/Groundwater/SWYarragadee/ReportsToTheDepartment/Content/ABORIGINAL%20SOCIAL%20WATER%20REQUIREMENTS%20FOR%20THE%20SOUTHERN%20BL.pdf|title=Water Authority – Aboriginal social water requirements for the Southern Blackwood Plateau|year=2006|access-date=2008-09-14}}

The Wonnerup massacre of Wardandi Noongar people by European settlers occurred in the vicinity of the area in 1841. The Ballaarat tramline, Western Australia's first railway and railway bridge, was constructed in 1871 in the locality of Lockville, within Wonnerup. Wonnerup was later the junction of the Bunbury to Busselton railway line and the Nannup branch railway. In 1998, part of Wonnerup was subsumed into the Busselton suburb of Geographe.Landgate Geonoma database, entry for Geographe

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|File:BallaratLocomotive WEFretwellCollection.jpg

|Ballaarat locomotive in the sand at Wonnerup 27 March 1921

|File:Bridge at Wonnerup, Western Australia,1921.jpg

|Bridge at Wonnerup, Western Australia

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