Collins, Western Australia

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Collins
Western Australia
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Collins
Collins, Western Australia
Coordinates 34°26′02″S116°07′26″E / 34.43394°S 116.12391°E / -34.43394; 116.12391
Population49 (SAL 2021) [1]
Postcode(s) 6260
Area133.8 km2 (51.7 sq mi)
Location
LGA(s) Shire of Manjimup
State electorate(s) Warren-Blackwood
Federal division(s) O'Connor
Localities around Collins:
Pemberton Eastbrook Smith Brook
Yeagarup Collins Quinninup
Crowea Crowea Crowea

Collins is a rural locality of the Shire of Manjimup in the South West region of Western Australia. The South Western Highway forms the north-eastern border of the locality while the Vasse Highway runs along its north-western one. The Warren River forms the entire eastern and southern border of Collins. Small sections of the Sir James Mitchell and Gloucester National Park are also located within the locality. [2] [3]

History

The locality of Collins, like most of the Shire of Manjimup, is located on the traditional land of the Bibulman people of the Noongar nation. [4] [5] [6]

The locality was once a stop on the Northcliffe Branch railway. [7] The Warren River railway bridge of the line is now on the Western Australian State Register of Heritage Places. [8] After closure of the line, the bridge was the stopping place for the shorter run of the Pemberton-Northcliffe Railway from Pemberton, a heritage railway. The heritage assessment for the bridge deemed it to be the most impressive bridge on the line, being 127 metres long, 10 metres high and constructed in 1930. The Warren River was repaired in 1961, after suffering fire damage and, again, from 1972 to 1973. [9]

A second railway bridge over the Warren River, was subsequently used as a road bridge, is on the shire's heritage list, and now used as crossing on the Bibbulmun Track. [10] Also on the shire's heritage list is Warren House, was built by convicts for Edward Revely Brockman in 1865, an early European settler in the area who married into the Bussell family. Brockman became the first chairman of the Lower Blackwood Road District, now the Shire of Nannup and has street in Pemberton named after him. [11]

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References

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Collins (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. "SLIP Map". maps.slip.wa.gov.au. Landgate . Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  3. "NationalMap". nationalmap.gov.au. Geoscience Australia . Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  4. "Map of Indigenous Australia". aiatsis.gov.au. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies . Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  5. "Catalog of Australian Aboriginal Tribes". www.samuseum.sa.gov.au. South Australian Museum . Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  6. "Welcome to the Shire of Manjimup". www.manjimup.wa.gov.au. Shire of Nannup. Retrieved 1 October 2024. The Shire of Manjimup respectfully acknowledges the Noongar people as the Traditional Custodians of the lands in which we work throughout the region ...
  7. "Railway map of Western Australia, 1952". Trove. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  8. "Warren River Railway Bridge, Picton to Northcliffe Railway". inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au. Heritage Council of Western Australia . Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  9. "Warren River Railway Bridge, Picton to Northcliffe Railway: Register Entry Assessment Documentation". inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au. Heritage Council of Western Australia . Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  10. "River Road Bridge". inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au. Heritage Council of Western Australia . Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  11. "Warren House". inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au. Heritage Council of Western Australia . Retrieved 1 October 2024.