The population is widely distributed, with only about 16, 000 people living in the main towns of Northam, Narrogin, Merredin and Moora.

Merredin is a town in Western Australia, located in the Central Wheatbelt roughly midway between Perth and Kalgoorlie, on Route 94, Great Eastern Highway.

Of the five journeys the first was exploratory ( 1864 ), the second established a track which moved from waterhole to waterhole ( 1865 ) and the third built a series of wells and dams ( the Hunt's Dam at Merredin is located about 10 kilometres north of town off the Merredin-Chandler Road ).

It is almost certain that Hunt climbed Merredin Peak ( a short distance out of town to the north ) and that he heard the town's name from the local Aborigines.

Hunt claimed that the local Aborigines referred to the place as ' Merriding ' while other explanations suggest that the name comes from ' merrit-in ' - ' the place of the merrit ' ( merrit being a kind of tree which was used for making spears )-or that it was the name used by the Aborigines to describe the ' huge bare granite rock ' which the locals call Merredin Rock but which is officially named Merredin Peak.

Merredin Peak's Railway Dam continued to supply water to the railway until 1968 and even today is still used as the water supply for the fountain outside the Merredin Railway Museum.

One of the biggest problems to face the agricultural industry in Merredin is salinity.

A recent study showed that the main source of this water is Merredin townsite itself.

Burracoppin is a townsite on the Great Eastern Highway, east of Merredin in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

Carrabin is a small town located about east-north-east of Merredin, on the railway line between Merredin and Southern Cross in Western Australia.

Bodallin is a town located around half way between Merredin and Southern Cross in Western Australia.

A succession of gold rushes in the Yilgarn region near Southern Cross in 1887, at Coolgardie in 1892, and at Kalgoorlie in 1893 caused a population explosion in the barren and dry desert centre of Western Australia, exemplified by towns like Cunderdin and Merredin.

Land in the present townsite was offered for sale in 1906 and by 1911 the Merredin Roads Board had been formed.

China Southern West Australian Flying College, Merredin

Towns and settlements along the way to Kalgoorlie-Boulder include Northam, Meckering, Cunderdin, Tammin, Kellerberrin, Doodlakine, Merredin, Burracoppin, Bodallin, Moorine Rock, Southern Cross, Yellowdine, Boorabbin, Bullabulling and Coolgardie.

It included the Goldfields-Esperance, Gascoyne, Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, in addition to the eastern and far northern parts of the Mid West region, and the town of Merredin.

* West Merredin Yard, Merredin

He was born in Merredin, Western Australia, and was educated at Graylands Teachers College, Perth.

Two major changes have since been made to the service ; in June 2004, the AvonLink service was extended to Merredin three days a week, also visiting several smaller towns in the area, and on 1 August 2005, a new $ 12 million railcar made its maiden trip.

The need for the water from Merredin Peak disappeared in 1903 when C. Y. O ' Connor's 565 km pipeline was completed.

It provides one service in each direction every weekday, to and from the regional town of Northam, and since 2004, has provided three extended services a week ( MerredinLink ) to the town of Merredin.

* East Perth ( Merredin services depart from here )

The branch line to Bencubbin opened on 1 February 1915 and the line from Dowerin was extended to Merredin in August, 1911.

* In 1999, the town of Merredin, Western Australia officially made it into the Guinness Book of Records, when Marleys Transport made a successful attempt on the record for the world's longest road train.

Historically, the electorate was a country seat extending north to Dongara, east to Merredin and south to the coast.

** Transwa MerredinLink – extension of the AvonLink to Merredin three times a week.

located at Augusta, Australind, Balingup, Beverley, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown, Brunswick, Busselton, Collie, Coorow, Cranbrook, Corrigin, Cue, Cunderdin, Denmark, Dongara, Donnybrook, Dunsborough, Esperance, Fremantle, Floreat, Geraldton, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Greenbushes, Harvey, Jerramungup, Kalbarri, Kalgoorlie, Kambalda, Katanning, Kellerberrin, Kojonup, Lake Grace, Mandurah, Manjimup, Margaret River, Merredin, Moora, Mingenew, Morawa, Mt.

As late as 1889, when Assistant Surveyor Henry King set up camp on the north side of Merredin Rock, there was still no township.

The first settlement was established to the north of Merredin Peak on the York to the Goldfields road but it was hastily moved when the railway, which could not follow the gradients of Hunts Road, was built a few kilometres to the south.

In 1888 the area to the east of Merredin was officially proclaimed a goldfield and over the next decade prospectors and fossickers poured through the area.

Merredin's importance as a town was directly related to the establishment of a superb water catchment scheme on Merredin Peak.

A rock wall was built around the contours of Merredin Peak.

Constructed between 1893 and 1896, the Railway Dam ensured that Merredin would become much more than just another wheat-belt siding.

The agricultural land around Merredin produces 40 % of Western Australia ’ s wheat quota.

A water airport is a water aerodrome ( an area of open water used regularly by seaplanes or amphibious aircraft for landing and taking off ), usually with passenger facilities on adjacent land, which acts as an airport.

In jurisdictions where there is no legal distinction between aerodrome and airport, which term to use in the name of an aerodrome may be a commercial decision.

Sywell Aerodrome is the local aerodrome serving Northampton, Wellingborough, Kettering and Rushden as it is situated midway between these towns.

Housing and industrial estates have been built on some of the area that was Heston Aerodrome, and the M4 motorway with its large service area ( Heston services ) cuts across the former aerodrome site east-west, but a substantial area to the north of the M4 is host to the Airlinks 18-hole golf course.

The nearby Thomas Tallis School is built on the former site of an RAF aerodrome, formerly a barrage balloon centre.

The aerodrome category is based on the size of the biggest aircraft taking a movement on the aerodrome.

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) a runway is a " defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft ".

Napier has a population smaller than Hastings but is seen as the main centre due to it having both the seaport and the airport, although Hastings has a small aerodrome.

Tynset also hosts an aerodrome that is used by smaller aircraft.

An airbase ( sometimes referred to as a military airfield, military airport, air force station or air force base ) is an aerodrome used by a military force for the operation of military aircraft.

* There is a Barnes Wallis Drive in Byfleet in Surrey within the former Brooklands aerodrome and motor circuit.

The aerodrome is licensed for night use.

Lobos is mainly known by its lagoon, the aerodrome, a museum of sciences, Juan Perón's house, which has been turned into a museum, and several ranches.

South Cariboo Regional Airport or 108 Mile Ranch Airport is a registered aerodrome located northwest of 108 Mile Ranch, British Columbia, Canada, is the regional aerodrome for the South Cariboo Regional District, handling over 2, 000 movements a year.

In addition, to the south of the circular highway ( boulevard périphérique ), an extension of the 15th, formerly an aerodrome at the beginning of the 20th century, is now a heliport, a gym and a recreation center.

The base is now on what is termed " care and maintenance " — this allows the airfield to be used by civilian airlines, which may conduct scheduled and charter flights from the aerodrome.

Similarly, the Equal time point, referred to as the ETP ( also Critical point ( CP )), is the point in the flight where it would take the same time to continue flying straight, or track back to the departure aerodrome.

the ETP is not dependant on fuel, but wind, giving a change in ground speed out from, and back to the departure aerodrome.