Shackleton
Shackleton is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The town is located close to the Salt River and along the disused railway line between Bruce Rock and Quairading.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 96 residents
- Description: town in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia
- Also known as: “Shackleton, W.A.”, “Shackleton, Western Australia”, and “Shackleton, Western Australia, Australia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kwolyin.
Kwolyin
Town
Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kwolyin is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The first European to visit the area, in 1864, was the explorer Charles Cooke Hunt, who charted a large granite hill in the area by its Indigenous Australian name of Qualyin Hill. Kwolyin is situated 7 km west of Shackleton.
Shackleton
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Shire of Bruce Rock, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-31.9317° or 31° 55′ 54″ southLongitude
117.83683° or 117° 50′ 13″ eastPopulation
96Elevation
250 metres (820 feet)Open location code
4PWV3R9P+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 3301492258OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2061700Wikidata ID
Q3481151
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Shackleton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Shackleton”
- Catalan: “Shackleton”
- Cebuano: “Shackleton”
- Dutch: “Shackleton (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Shackleton”
- French: “Shackleton”
- Persian: “شکلتن، استرالیای غربی”
- Samogitian: “Shackleton”
- Swedish: “Shackleton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Smallest Bank and Shackleton Memorial Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shackleton”. Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0.