Dumbleyung is a town and shire in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 267 kilometres south-east of Perth between Wagin and Lak…Dumbleyung is a town and shire in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 267 kilometres south-east of Perth between Wagin and Lake Grace on State Route 107. Dumbleyung's name is of Noongar origin, coming from "Dambeling" which possibly means "large lake or inland sea" (although another source suggests it came from "dumbung", a game played with bent sticks and a hard piece of fruit. The lake nearby was discovered and named Dambeling Lake by explorers Henry Landor and Henry Maxwell Lefroy in 1843, and the current spelling was used by surveyors in the 1860s and 1870s. Pastoralists and sandalwood cutters moved into the area, initially settling at Nippering, north of Lake Dumbleyung and 10 kilometres west of the present town.
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