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HEMA Map Reference 74/J6
34° 46' 30" S 117° 42' 13" E
Located south of Mount Barker, 377 kilometres from Perth, the town dates back to 1922. Its name is an Aboriginal word meaning place of swamps. (Another source quotes ‘place of abundance’) The railway arrived in 1889 and a siding known as Hay River was constructed. Land was set aside near the siding for a townsite in 1891 but it was not gazetted until 1907.
Despite the origins of the name the town is neat and attractive and has won the Plantagenet Shire's Inter-Tidy Town competition six times.
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