Mount Barker, Western Australia

This article is about the town in Western Australia. For the city in South Australia, see Mount Barker, South Australia.
Mount Barker
Pwakkenbak (Nyungar)[1]
Western Australia
Lowood Road, Mount Barker, 2018
Mount Barker is located in Western Australia
Mount Barker
Mount Barker
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Coordinates34°37′48″S 117°40′01″E / 34.63000°S 117.66694°E / -34.63000; 117.66694
Population1,898 (UCL 2021)[2]
Established1892
Postcode(s)6324
Elevation300 m (984 ft)
Area489.2 km2 (188.9 sq mi)
Location
  • 360 km (224 mi) from Perth
  • 50 km (31 mi) from Albany
LGA(s)Shire of Plantagenet
State electorate(s)Warren-Blackwood
Federal division(s)O'Connor
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
20.1 °C
68 °F		 9.4 °C
49 °F		 728.5 mm
28.7 in
Localities around Mount Barker:
Kendenup Kendenup Woogenellup
Forest Hill Mount Barker Porongurup
Denbarker Narrikup Porongurup

Mount Barker is a town and locality on Albany Highway and the administrative centre of the Shire of Plantagenet in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.[3][4] At the 2021 census, Mount Barker had a population of 2,855.

The town was named after the nearby hill, which in turn was named in 1829 by Thomas Braidwood Wilson in honour of Captain Collet Barker, who was in command of Western Australia's original British settlement at King George's Sound from 1829 to 1831.[5]

  1. ^ "Pwakkenbak (Mount Barker Hill)". Mountain Country Tourism. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Barker (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "SLIP Map". maps.slip.wa.gov.au. Landgate. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  4. ^ "NationalMap". nationalmap.gov.au. Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  5. ^ Bach, John (1966). "Barker, Collet (1784–1831)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 21 June 2018.