North Bannister, Western Australia

North Bannister is a locality in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, south-southeast of the state capital, Perth, [Western Australia|Perth] along Albany Highway between Armadale and Williams.
The locality's name honours Thomas Bannister who discovered the nearby Bannister River, a tributary of the Hotham River, in 1830 while leading the first overland expedition from Perth to King George Sound. The name was applied to the river in 1832 by surveyor-general John [Septimus Roe].