Australia - Can Anyone Identify These Placenames?

Can anyone identify the following WA placenames? (I assume they're WA, because they came in a large lot of stamps with WA postmarks.)

1: Looks like 'UITARNIN---'



2. Looks like '---ORAWARRAH'



3. This one is not necessarily WA. It reads '-NT COOK.'



All assistance greatly appreciated!

2 might be Doorawarrah?

Thanks, Cjd, that would be right.

I think the third one is RAAF Point Cook

Thanks, jubilee!

I had a feeling the first one was going to be the really hard one, though.

I've probably wasted an hour or so on it without getting anywhere.

The first one is JITARNING in Western Australia.

Thanks, nigelc!!

Doorawarrah
A31 closed circa 1957
Scarcity rating =1
(known to exist in very low numbers)

Caveat: I am not a pmk collector, just reading from the book.

1st one

JITARNING B29
closed 1975
previously GEETARNING
scarcity rating 3-4

3-4 = found in increased numbers,
but the quality may suffer age and condition


Point Cook is Victoria
you'll need to source a wise man from the East
to ID that one.

Jitarning is about 50Km from my place,
havn't cycled there as yet,
but may take a bo-peep soon,
sounds interesting.....

Australian postmarks are well outside my sphere of influence, but on first principles, I'd imagine Point Cook would be reasonably common. It was a fairly important Air Force base, and home amongst other things to the Armed Forces Languages School. (An excellent establishment it was, too. In my student days in the 1960s I went up against one of its Indonesian language graduates and retired humbled.) These days, the old base is being redeveloped for housing.

Nice ditty there, Tony of the Mac,
Point Cook,
suggests a deeper meaning regarding history of the Captain.

Point Cook, Victoria, has nothing to do with the good Yorkshire Captain.

Wiki info:
Point Cook was originally spelt Point Cooke, and named in 1836. Almost all references dropped the "e", however in the early 2000s the point itself was officially renamed "Point Cooke". Point Cook was named after John M. Cooke, mate of His Majesty's vessel Rattlesnake. Commanded by Captain Hobson, the ship charted part of the Port Phillip bay in 1836.

see page 15 of Cook's Log (journal of the Captain Cook Society) v.27,no.4(2004)in the link below:

http://www.captaincooksociety.com/vol27no4.pdf

There's also an interesting quiz on page 3.

Extraordinary research there, 22 crows,
beyond your usually high standard

What a quiz! failed on all I should think,
although 52 looks familiar, possibly Bulgaria

HMS Rattlesnake a few years later....

I teach in Point Cook. It has increased dramatically in size over the past 10 years.