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Perth, Western Australia hosts a variety of unique and biologically diverse habitats found nowhere else on Earth. [1] Many of these habitats include islands. Islands provide habitat and safe refuge for endangered native fauna as they are free of invasive species and the pressures of human development .
For lists of islands of Western Australia, please see: List of islands of Western Australia, 0–9, A–C; Islands of Lake Argyle; List of islands of Western Australia, D–G; List of islands of Western Australia, H–L; List of islands of Western Australia, M–Q; List of islands of Western Australia, R–T; List of islands of Western ...
This sortable list of islands of Western Australia includes all coastal and inland islands, cays, isles and islets. It also includes named island groups, archipelagos and island clumps. This list is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia . [ 1 ]
Western Australia has the longest coastline of any state or territory in Australia, at 10,194 km [1] or 12,889 km (20,781 km including islands). [ 2 ] [ a ] It is a significant portion of the coastline of Australia , which is 35,877 km (59,736 km including islands).
West River is a rural locality of the Shire of Ravensthorpe in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The South Coast Highway passes through the locality from west to east. West River borders the Fitzgerald River National Park to the south and the townsite of Fitzgerald to the west.
The North West, North West Coast, North Western Australia and North West Australia, are usually informal names for the northern regions of the State of Western Australia. However, some conceptions of "North West Australia" have included adjoining parts of the Northern Territory (NT) – or even the entire NT (see below). It has been described ...
Perth Water, viewed from Heirisson Island in 2005. Perth Water is a section of the Swan River on the southern edge of the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It is between the Causeway to the east, and Narrows Bridge to the west – a large wide but shallow section of river, and the northern edge of the suburb South Perth.
The Baudin expedition of 1800–03 included the coast of Western Australia and resulted in the Freycinet Map of 1811, the first published map featuring the full outline of Australia. The name New Holland remained in popular and semi-official use until at least the mid-1850s; that is, it was in use for about 206 years in comparison to the name ...