Perup is a rural
locality
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of the
Shire of Manjimup
The Shire of Manjimup is a local government area in the South West region of Western Australia, about south of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and its seat of government is the town of Manjimup.
History
The Shire are ...
in the
South West
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Geography
*South West Queensland, Australia
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region of Western Australia. The
Muir Highway
Muir Highway, also called Muirs Highway, is a Western Australian highway linking Manjimup and Mount Barker, which is on the Albany Highway. It is signed as State Route 102 and is long. It provides a shorter distance between the cities of Bu ...
forms the southern border of the locality while the
Perup River runs through Perup from north to south. The south-eastern corner of
Greater Kingston National Park
Greater Kingston National Park is a national park in the South West region of Western Australia, south of Perth. It is located in the Shires of Bridgetown–Greenbushes, Boyup Brook and Manjimup. It is located in the Jarrah Forest bioregion ...
sticks into the north of the locality.
Perup is located on the traditional land of the
Bibulman
The Bibulman (Pibelmen) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the southwestern region of Western Australia, a subgroup of the Noongar.
Name
Their autonym may be related to the word for stingray, ''pibilum''.
Country
Pibelmen lands comprised ...
people of the
Noongar
The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the South West, Western Australia, south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton, Western Aus ...
nation.
The heritage listed Perup Homestead, listed on the shire's heritage list and on the now defunct
Register of the National Estate
The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007. Phasing out began in 2003, when the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heri ...
, is located within Perup, having been constructed in 1885. It is at the site of a shepherds hut build by the Muir family in 1855, early European settlers in the area.
In the 1940s Perup-reared cattle were considered as high value.
The south-western part of the
Tone-Perup Nature Reserve is located within Perup. The nature reserve is one of two locations home to
numbat
The numbat (''Myrmecobius fasciatus''), also known as the noombat or walpurti, is an insectivorous marsupial. It is diurnal and its diet consists almost exclusively of termites.
The species was once widespread across southern Australia, but i ...
s, the other one being
Dryandra Woodland National Park
The Dryandra Woodland National Park is a national park in Western Australia within the shires of Cuballing, Williams and Wandering, about south-east of Perth and north-west of the town of Narrogin. It is a complex of 17 distinct blocks manag ...
.
References
{{Towns South West WA
Shire of Manjimup