Jerramungup 

Jerramungup is located in the Great Southern agricultural region, on the Gairdner River. The township was established in 1953 as a war service settlement area and is one of the newer towns in this historic region. It was gazetted in 1957, at a time when the Government was active in opening up land in the area for agriculture.

• Jerramungup is said to mean "place of upstanding yate trees" in the local Aboriginal dialect. The name was first stated by European John Septimus Roe in 1847, when undergoing exploration of the area, noting that the Aboriginal people referred to the river as "Jeer-A-Mung-Up". Roe later named the same river near its mouth the Gairdner River, not realising they were the same, and this is the name now used for the river.

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