Wheatbelt Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
administrative region in Western Australia
About Wheatbelt
The Wheatbelt is a large tract of Western Australia converted to wheat and sheep agriculture in the 19th century, which involved the British settlers ejecting and sometimes slaying theAboriginal inhabitantsof the area. This was done initially to feed the growing city of Perth, and export further afield was only feasible with mechanisation and better transport in the mid 20th century. Transport has long shaped this region: settlers of the Avon Valley from the 1830s had to slog up the slopes of the Darling Range, and the coastline north of Perth lacked harbours. The railways made all the difference later that century - the main motive was to reach the goldfields further east, but they created a transport corridor for agriculture. Small towns developed along the tracks and in many places are
Wheatbelt Travel Guide Sections
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