- Source: Kwolyin, Western Australia
Kwolyin is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
The first European to visit the area, in 1864, was the explorer Charles Cooke Hunt, who charted a large granite hill in the area by its Indigenous Australian name of Qualyin Hill. The meaning of the name is unknown.
By 1908 the area had been settled and the local progress association requested that the government declare a townsite along the Quairading to Nunagin railway line that was being proposed.
The townsite was selected in 1912 due to its position near Coaring Spring and the townsite was gazetted in 1913, the same year the railway was opened. The station was initially named as Koarin but later renamed as Kwolyin. Kwolyin's State Hotel was constructed in 1914. It was destroyed by arson in February 1992. The gutted hotel building was demolished in 1992.
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- Kwolyin, Western Australia
- List of towns in Western Australia
- List of protected areas of Western Australia
- Major roads in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia
- List of named nature reserves of Western Australia
- List of schools in rural Western Australia
- Shire of Bruce Rock
- List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin
- Red wattlebird
- List of former Australian rules football competitions in Western Australia
