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Ongerup is a town south-east of Perth and east of Gnowangerup in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. == History == The name Ongerup means "place of the male kangaroo" in the local Noongar language. The area around Ongerup was first explored by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe who passed through in 1848. In the 1870s the Moir family moved to the area and began grazing sheep along the Warperup Creek. In 1910 the land was surveyed into blocks priced at 10 shillings per acre before the townsite was gazetted in 1912. A branch line to Ongerup from Tambellup on the Great Southern Railway main line between Perth and Albany was opened on 6 January 1913 to serve the growing agriculture industry; it closed on 13 October 1957.〔''The Ongerup Branch'' Milne, Rod Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, May, 2002 pp.163-170〕 A timetable from 1937 shows two trains per week leaving Ongerup on Tuesdays at 06:55 and Fridays at 04:00. Lengthy connections of around 12 hours were available at Katanning for Perth, arriving approximately 30 hours after leaving Ongerup.〔Australian Association of Timetable Collectors - June 2000 newsletter www.aattc.org.〕 In 1918 a barracks was constructed on Eldridge Street for railway workers based in Ongerup. The building survived the closure of the railway and now houses the Ongerup/Needilup District Museum that was opened in 1978. A local newspaper, ''The Gnowangerup Star and Tambellup-Ongerup Gazette'', was launched on 21 August 1915 with the final edition being printed in 2003.〔Australian Newspaper History Group, newsletter October 2003〕 The first Ongerup Public Hall was built in 1927 but was replaced by the current building in 1953. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, kangaroo hunters and mallee bark strippers came to the area. The bark was sent to Germany for use in tanning. The town was flooded when of rain, almost a third of the annual average, fell in one day on 17 February 1955.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australia weather forecast )〕 In June 1983 the Ongerup Cemetery received its first burial.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ongerup Cemetery )〕 In 1983 the Ongerup Shears event was held for the first time. This was a shearing competition that was held on the Queen's Birthday long weekend with international and national shearers competing in the runup to the Perth Royal Show. The event was discontinued in the 1990s. On 13 September 1986, two children were killed by a boiler explosion at the Ongerup sports oval.〔http://www.sro.wa.gov.au Inquest into explosion at Ongerup Sporting Complex〕 In 2009 a 13-part documentary, entitled ''The Life of the Town'', was made by Ronin Films that looked at the life of the town and focussed on the Australian Rules football team which was under threat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Life of the Town'' )〕 In 2012 the town celebrated its official centenary with a programme of various events.〔http://www.ongerupcentenary.com.au 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ongerup, Western Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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