Boyanup, Western Australia

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Boyanup is a town located on the South Western Highway in the South West agricultural region, 195 km south of Perth and 18 km south east of Bunbury, Western Australia.

Boyanup is an Noongar Aboriginal name, said to mean "a place of quartz" as "Boya" means "rock" or "stone". The name was first recorded by an explorer in 1852, and a road survey in 1869 shows the town name as "Boyinup". In 1888 a railway was built between Boyanup and Bunbury, and the townsite was gazetted in 1894.^[1]

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