Brookton is a town and shire located 138 km ESE of Perth, Western Australia on the Brookton Highway. The town is also located on the Great Southern Highway and the Great Southern railway line. Jump to: navigation, search Perth is the capital city of Western Australia. ... Great Southern Highway and surrounding highways Great Southern Highway is a Western Australia highway linking Great Eastern Highway at Northam and Albany Highway near Cranbrook. ...
Located 138 km south-east of Perth, Brookton is a typical small wheatbelt town spreading out on both sides of the railway line and the Great Southern Highway.
At this time the land around Brookton was heavily timbered with white gums, York gums, jam and she-oak thickets and scrub.
The rock is home to the unusual resurrection plant, a tough little plant known as pin cushions which dries out in summer and appears to have died only to be 'resurrected' by the first rains of winter.