Towns in Australia

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Greenough WA

Greenough

Postcode: 6532

Greenough is a historical town located 400 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia and 24 kilometres south of Geraldton on the Brand Highway. The historic buildings are controlled by the National Trust of Australia. Another feature popular with tourists are the trees that are bent 90 degrees due to the coastal winds.

The mouth of the Greenough River is about 10km to the north of the town.

On 16 February 1999, a rare annular solar eclipse of magnitude 0.9906 was visible from the area.

The area was first explored by George Grey in 1839 after which he named the area after Sir George Bellas Greenough, the president of the Royal Geographical Society in London. Grey claimed that the area could become the granary of Western Australia.