DESTINATION WESTERN AUSTRALIA

The first inhabitants of what is now Western Australia were Indigenous Australians, from a wide variety of language and kin groups. These groups retain significant presences throughout the state and, in some areas - like the Kimberley - continue to form the majority of the local population.

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DISCOVER WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Broome, Cervantes, Fremantle, Hillarys Boat Harbour, Kalbarri National Park, Mammoth Cave, Margaret River, Monkey Mia, Perth, The Pinnacles, Rockingham, Shark Bay, Shell Beach, Swan River, Wave Rock, Yanchep National Park, York,

DISCOVER BROOME Broome is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 2200 km north of Perth. The year round population is approximately 14,000, growing to around 30,000 during the tourist season. Broome International Airport provides transport to several regional and domestic towns and cities ...

DISCOVER CERVANTES Cervantes is a town in Western Australia. The town is located just off Indian Ocean Drive about 198 kilometres nnw of the state capital, Perth. The town was named after a ship that was wrecked nearby. The ship, in turn, was named after Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. The principal industry is fishing. The Pinnacles are nearby in Nambung National Park ...

DISCOVER FREMANTLE Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829. The city is named after Captain Charles Howe Fremantle, the English naval officer who had pronounced possession of Western Australia ...

HILLARYS BOAT HARBOUR Hillarys Boat Harbour is a marina and tourist precinct located in Hillarys, north of Perth, on the Indian Ocean. Hillarys is also home to AQWA - The Aquarium of Western Australia which showcases the marine life and unique regions of Western Australia's 12,000km coastline. Other attractions around the harbour include a waterslide and putt-putt course ...

KALBARRI NATIONAL PARK Kalbarri National Park is located 485 kilometres (301 mi) north of Perth. The major geographical features of the park include the Murchison River gorge which runs for nearly 80 kilometres on the lower reaches of the Murchison River. Spectacular coastal cliffs are located on the coast near the mouth of the Murchison River and the town of Kalbarri ...

MAMMOTH CAVE Mammoth Cave is a large limestone cave 21 km south of the town of Margaret River in south-western Western Australia, and about 300 km south of Perth. It lies within the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park and is surrounded by Karri and Marri forest. The cave is 500 m long and 30 m deep. It has been known from about 1850 to European settlers of the Margaret River district ...

DISCOVER MARGARET RIVER Margaret River is a town and river in the South West of Western Australia, located 277 kilometres (172 mi) south of Perth, the state capital. The surrounding area is the Margaret River Wine Region and has become known for its wine production and tourism, attracting an estimated 500,000 visitors annually ...

MONKEY MIA Monkey Mia is a popular tourist resort located about 800 km north of Perth, Western Australia. The resort is 25 km northeast of the town of Denham in the Shark Bay Marine Park and World Heritage Site. The main attraction is the daily feeding of the bottlenose Dolphins that have been coming close to shore for more than forty year ...

DISCOVER PERTH Perth is the capital and largest city of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia. Perth became known worldwide as the 'City of Light' when city residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the earth on Friendship 7 in 1962 and again on the Space Shuttle in 1998 ...

THE PINNACLES DESERT The Pinnacles are limestone formations contained within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes ...

DISCOVER ROCKINGHAM Rockingham is a suburb and primary centre in Western Australia south-west of the Perth city centre and south of Fremantle. It has a beachside location at Mangles Bay, the southern extremity of Cockburn Sound. To its north stretches the maritime and resource-industry installations of Kwinana and Henderson. Offshore to the north-west is Australia's largest naval fleet ...

SHARK BAY Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. It is an area 800 kilometres north of Perth, on the westernmost point of Australia. An expedition led by Dirk Hartog happened upon the area in 1616, becoming the second group of Europeans known to have visited Australia. Shark Bay was named by William Dampier, in 1699 ...

SHELL BEACH Shell Beach is a beach in the Shark Bay region of Western Australia, 45 kilometres south-east of Denham. It covers a 110 km long stretch of coast along the L'Haridon Bight. It is one of only two beaches in the world made entirely from shells. The beach was named 'Shell Beach' because of the great abundance of the shells of the cockle species Fragum erugatum ...

SWAN RIVER The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. Its lower reaches are relatively wide and deep, with few constrictions, while the upper reaches are usually quite narrow and shallow. The Swan is located on the edge of the Darling Scarp, flowing downhill across the coastal plain to its mouth at Fremantle ...

WAVE ROCK Wave Rock is a natural rock formation that is shaped like a tall breaking ocean wave. The 'wave' is about 14 m (47 ft) high and around 110 m (350 ft) long. It forms the north side of a solitary hill, which is known as 'Hyden Rock'. This hill, which is a granite inselberg, lies about 3 km east of the small town of Hyden and 296 km east-southeast of Perth ...

YANCHEP NATIONAL PARK Yanchep is a national park in Western Australia (Australia), 42 kilometres (26 mi) north of Perth. The park is noted for its caves, native bush and koala colonies. It also offers cultural educational programmes offered in partnership with the local Nyoongar aboriginal people. The area was inhabited and was a noted hunting site for thousands of years ...

DISCOVER YORK York is the oldest inland town in Western Australia, situated 97 km east of Perth in the Avon Valley near Northam, and is the seat of the Shire of York. York was was settled in 1831, only two years after Perth was settled in 1829. The town has adapted by changing from a traditional sheep and wheat agricultural community into a tourist town ...

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