![Wongan Hills Newsagency 25th Sept 1998](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-03/slwa_b2642700_1.jpg?itok=qbGg5fk3)
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Wongan Hills is located 185km from Perth in the Shire of Wongan – Balidu in the Wheatbelt region. The shire falls within the traditional lands of the Ballardong Noongar and Yued Noongar people.
![King Bay Dampier Western Australia 1966](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-12/slwa_b6116900_2.jpg?h=3182bb80&itok=mbJHnZHu)
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Dampier is a port town in the Pilbara region, twenty kilometres west of Karratha. It is named after the British explorer William Dampier who visited in 1699.
![BA369AM57 Merredin Railway Yard August 1968](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-06/m8slwa_b5134810_1.jpg?itok=eesjfO_6)
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Merredin is located 256 kilometres east of Perth in the Central Wheatbelt. Prior to European settlement the area was inhabited by the Nyaki-Nyaki Noongar Aboriginal language group.
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Tom Price is a mining town situated in the Pilbara region. The town is located inland on the edge of the Hamersley Range.
![Entry sign for the town of Nyabing 2018](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-06/nyabing1.jpg?h=a47755df&itok=BOGqLIVK)
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Nyabing is a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia 319 km south east of Perth. Its population is around 290 people.