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Lake King, Western Australia

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In 1926, following completion of an initial land classification survey of the Lake King district that defined 230,000 acres as suitable for settlement, a large official inspection party was led by
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South Province). The area was surveyed and access roads built during 1927, and land released in 1928 at prices from 4/6 to 16/- per acre. The town struggled through the but thrived in the
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The Lake King Progress Association lobbied the government to declare a townsite in 1935 and the town was gazetted in 1936.
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Lake King is named after a nearby lake which in turn was named after the
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Wagin), Edwin Wilkie Corboy (MLA Yilgan), and James Cornell (
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The Wagin Argus and Arthur, Dumbleyung, Lake Grace Express
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Bruce Rock Post and Corrigin and Narembeen Guardian
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Lake King
Gippsland Lakes
Western Australia

Lake King is located in Western Australia
Coordinates
33°05′06″S 119°41′20″E / 33.085°S 119.689°E / -33.085; 119.689
2021
Postcode(s)
Perth
Ravensthorpe
Lake Grace
LGA(s)
Shire of Lake Grace
State electorate(s)
Roe
Federal division(s)
O'Connor
Wheatbelt
Western Australia
Perth
State Route 40
Kelmscott
Ravensthorpe
Surveyor General
Henry Sandford King
Surveyor General
MLA
MLC
postwar

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