Background
Frank Wittenoom was born in York, Western Australia in 1855. He was the grandson of John Burdett Wittenoom one of the first chaplains in the Swan River Colony.
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He took up farming in Western Australia. Additionally, he was the first European to explore much of the Murchison, Gascoyne and Pilbara areas of the north-west of Western Australia. He built a Queen Anne style house in Perth, called "The Terraces", in the late 1890s and extended it in 1900.
In 1987, the house was classified by the National Trust and has been added to the State Heritage Register.
Death and legacy
Wittenoom never married. He died in Perth, Western Australia, aged 83.
The town of Wittenoom, Western Australia was named after him by Language Hancock with whom he shared a nearby pastoral lease.
