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In September 1829, three months after the Swan River Colony's establishment, Robert Ansell Partridge was granted permission to select 25.85 km² (6,388 acres) of land by the colonial authorities. After sailing up the Swan River with Governor Stirling and Surveyor-General Roe later that month, he chose a short section of the river just north of Caversham, and was granted a long, narrow strip of land extending 19 kilometres west to Big Carine Swamp and which included the southern half of modern-day Hamersley. This land became known as Swan Location K. While it changed hands several times, the western part of Location K, first surveyed by P.L.S. Chauncy in 1843, remained fairly inaccessible and the only development in the area was the construction of the Daviot Park cottage on Old Balcatta Road 500 metres southwest of Hamersley, on the site vacated in 2006 by Tony's for Flowers. In 1939, the Department of the Interior constructed a 208-metre tower and other facilities for ABC AM and shortwave radio broadcasts on Wanneroo Road.

Swan Location 1315, which included northern Hamersley and extended north to Lake Goollelal and west to the coast, was surveyed by Crossland & Co. in 1892, and by N. Lymburner in 1894. The Midland Railway Company were subsequently granted the land in exchange for building the railway from Midland to Walkaway (near Geraldton),