Northam
Northam is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, with a population of 6679 in 2021. It's 100 km east of Perth and like other nearby towns it was founded in the 1830s when the Avon Valley was colonised.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 6,680 residents
- Description: town in Wheatbelt region in Western Australia
- Also known as: “Northam, Australia”, “Northam, W.A.”, “Northam, Western Australia”, and “Northam, Western Australia, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Northam railway station, Western Australia and Northam Senior High School.
Northam railway station, Western Australia
Railway station
Photo: V1213, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Northam railway station is located in Northam on the Eastern Railway route in Western Australia. It is the second and more recent railway station in Northam.
Northam Senior High School
School
Northam Senior High School is a comprehensive public co-educational high school, located in Northam, a regional centre in the Wheatbelt region, 97 kilometres east of Perth, Western Australia.
Avon Yard
Railway station
Photo: JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au.
Avon Yard is a railway yard west of Northam, Western Australia. It lies on the southern side of the Avon River on the Eastern Railway between Toodyay and Northam. Avon Yard is situated 4½ km west of Northam.
Northam
- Category: locality
- Location: Wheatbelt, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-31.6535° or 31° 39′ 13″ southLongitude
116.6727° or 116° 40′ 22″ eastPopulation
6,680Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU NHAOpen location code
4PWR8MWF+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 2553978905OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Northam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نورثام”
- Asturian: “Northam”
- Basque: “Northam (Mendebaldeko Australia)”
- Basque: “Northam”
- Belarusian: “Нортэм”
- Cebuano: “Northam”
- Danish: “Northam”
- Dutch: “Northam, Western Australia”
- Dutch: “Northam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نورثام”
- French: “Northam”
- German: “Northam”
- Hebrew: “נורת’האם”
- Italian: “Northam”
- Japanese: “ノーザム”
- Lithuanian: “Nortamas (Australija)”
- Lithuanian: “Nortamas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Northam”
- Persian: “نورتام، استرالیای غربی”
- Polish: “Northam”
- Portuguese: “Northam”
- Russian: “Нортам”
- Russian: “Нортем”
- Slovenian: “Northam”
- Spanish: “Northam (Australia Occidental)”
- Spanish: “Northam”
- Swedish: “Northam, Western Australia”
- Ukrainian: “Нортем”
- Urdu: “نارتھم، مغربی آسٹریلیا”
- “Northam”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Northam”. Photo: SeanMack, CC BY 2.5.