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The port city of Bunbury is the third largest city in Western Australia after the state capital, Perth and Mandurah. It is situated 175km south of Perth's central business district (CBD).Bunbury was first established in 1836, and was named in recognition of Lieutenant Henry William St Pierre Bunbury.The city's administrative area, Greater Bunbury, includes four local government areas, and extends between Yarloop in the north, Boyanup to the south and Capel to the southwest.The port of Bunbury services the farming, mining and timber industries of the south west.HistoryPre-European historyThe original inhabitants of Greater Bunbury are the Indigenous Australian Noongar people. The people hunted and fished throughout the sub-region prior to the first European settlement in the 1830s.Early colonial periodThe first registered sighting of Greater Bunbury was by French explorer Captain Louis de Freycinet from his ship the Casuarina in 1803. He named the area Port Leschenault after the expedition's botanist, Leschenault de La Tour. The bay on Greater Bunbury's western shores was named Geographe after another ship in the fleet.
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