{"id":33394,"count":1,"description":"Greenough is a historical town located 400 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia and 24 kilometres south of Geraldton on the Brand Highway. The historic buildings are controlled by the National Trust of Australia. Another feature popular with tourists are the trees that are bent 90 degrees due to the coastal winds.\nThe mouth of the Greenough River is about 10\u00a0km to the north of the town.\nOn 16 February 1999, a rare annular solar eclipse of magnitude 0.9906 was visible from the area. \nThe area was first explored by George Grey in 1839 after which he named the area after Sir George Bellas Greenough, the president of the Royal Geographical Society in London. Grey claimed that the area could become the granary of Western Australia.\nIn 1851 Augustus Gregory surveyed 30,000 acres (120\u00a0km\u00b2) of land in the region which became known as the Greenough Flats. This was subdivided into 20- and 30-acre (120,000 m) lots with the view to encouraging English settlers who would be more used to...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/greenough\/","name":"Greenough","slug":"greenough","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/33394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=33394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}