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Mount Barker is a town and locality on Albany Highway and the administrative centre of the Shire of Plantagenet in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. [3] [4] At the 2021 census, Mount Barker had a population of 2,855.
In 2014, Council commenced detailed concept designs in collaboration with the South Australian Office for Recreation and Sport. By December 2017, a business case for the proposed Mount Barker Regional Sports Hub had been put forward, with the intention for construction to commence during 2019–20, and the facility to open during 2020–21. [6]
The Shire of Plantagenet is a local government area in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, managed from the town of Mount Barker, 360 kilometres (224 mi) south of Perth and 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Albany.
Mount Baker National Recreation Area is a designated National Recreation Area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is about 15 miles (24 km) south of the Canada–US border within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Northwestern Washington. The recreation area lies northwest of North Cascades National Park and comprises 8,600 acres ...
Totness Recreation Park is located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south-east of the Adelaide city centre and about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) north-west of the town of Mount Barker. [ 5 ] : i The park covers 41 hectares (101 acres) but is divided by the South Eastern Freeway , with 9 ha (22 acres) north of the freeway and 32 ha (79 acres) on its south.
Historically most local governments have strongly resisted forced amalgamations [10] and the total number of authorities has declined only marginally over the last century. The most recent state government led effort to encourage the voluntary amalgamation of 30 metropolitan local governments into 16 was abandoned by the Barnett government in 2014.
The Mount Barker Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in Mount Barker, Western Australia. Nicknamed the Bulls , the club plays in the Great Southern Football League , [ 1 ] with home games originally being hosted at Frost Oval ( aka Frost Park) in Mount Barker but changed to Sounness Park in 2015.
A large part of the south of the locality is covered by the Mount Roe National Park. Additionally, the Tootanellup Nature Reserve is also located within Rocky Gully. [2] [3] The town is located along the Muir Highway, about 8 kilometres (5 mi) from the Kent River.