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Dunsborough
You are looking for Accommodation in Dunsborough, Margaret River Region, Western Australia, Australia. We are bringing you one step closer to finding your perfect accommodation solution.
In Dunsborough we have holiday accommodation properties of the following types: Houses and Resorts.
Some of our popular destinations for holiday accommodation in Dunsborough include: Albany, Denmark, Dunsborough, Esperance, Fremantle, Great Southern Coastal, Henley Brook, Margaret River, Margaret River Region, Pemberton Region, Perth, Perth Hills, Scarborough, South East, South West and Victoria Park.
Our featured holiday accommodation properties in Dunsborough include: The Sanctuary Luxury Holiday Home and Bay Village Resort.
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The name Dunsborough probably comes from the early naming of the foreshore area as Dunn Bay
The name Dunsborough probably comes from the early naming of the foreshore area as Dunn Bay, believed to be named after an early American whaler named Dunn who regularly used the area and even planted a garden there to provide fresh vegetables for himself and crew. Another theory is that it was named by Governor Stirling after the town in Scotland.
The aboriginal name was 'Quedjinup' meaning 'place of women'. Wherever the name came from Dunsborough is today a thriving town of 3,000 people on a beautiful bay in a lovely section of Western Australia.
Although it was first frequented by whalers who used it as a source of wood and water, it was not gazetted as a town until 1879.
In the early 1800's hundreds of whalers were operating off the Western Australian Coast and in Geographe Bay and in 1846 the Castle Bay Whaling Station was established and its first manager, William Seymour, built a shingle roof cottage in Dunn Bay Rd. This building still exists although it has been moved to the Old Mill at Yallingup.
Around this time a timber industry developed at Quindalup, 3km. south east of the present township, and a jetty was established where hardwood jarrah and karri were loaded onto flat-bottom barges for transport to the larger ships anchored off-shore, and eventually to India.
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 You are looking for Accommodation in Dunsborough, Margaret River Region, Western Australia, Australia
Our featured holiday accommodation properties in Dunsborough include: Bay Village Resort and The Sanctuary Luxury Holiday Home.
In Dunsborough we have holiday accommodation properties of the following types: Houses and Resorts.
Some of our popular destinations for holiday accommodation in Dunsborough include: Albany, Denmark, Dunsborough, Esperance, Fremantle, Great Southern Coastal, Henley Brook, Margaret River, Margaret River Region, Pemberton Region, Perth, Perth Hills, Scarborough, South East, South West and Victoria Park.
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