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Cockburn Sound
Cockburn Sound (Nyungar Aboriginal Australian name: Derbal Nara) is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Western Australia. It extends from the south of the mouth of the Swan River at Fremantle for about 25 km to Point Peron near Rockingham and is located at . The total area of the sound is about 100 km2. It is bounded on the east by the mainland council areas of Cockburn and Kwinana, on the west by Garden Island and Carnac Island, and includes several rocky outcrops and reefs. The Gage Roads shipping channel lies to the north. The sound was named in 1827 by Captain James Stirling, probably after Admiral Sir George Cockburn. The Perth Seawater Desalination Plant can be found here. Water pollution Several media reports have been made on pollution of the water in Cockburn Sound, where in late 2015 an estimated 2,100 fish died as a result of algal blooms through poor local water quality. Reports from 2010 suggest the monitoring of pollutants was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garden Island, Western Australia
Garden Island (Noongar: ''Meandup'' or ''Meeandip'') is a narrow island about long and wide, lying about off the Western Australian coast, to which it is linked by an artificial causeway and bridge. Like Rottnest Island and Carnac Island, it is a limestone outcrop covered by a thin layer of sand accumulated during an era of lowered sea levels. The Noongar peoples tell of walking to these islands in their Dreamtime. At the end of the last glacial period, the sea level rose, cutting the island off from the mainland. For the last seven thousand years, the island has existed in relative isolation. The Royal Australian Navy's largest fleet base, Fleet Base West, also called HMAS ''Stirling'', is on the shores of Careening Bay, on the southeastern section of Garden Island, facing Cockburn Sound. people lived on the Garden Island base. The entirety of Garden Island is included on the Commonwealth Heritage List for its natural values. Garden Island is home to a tammar wallaby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwinana (other)
Kwinana may refer to: * City of Kwinana, a local government area in Western Australia * Electoral district of Kwinana, an electorate of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly * Kwinana Beach, Western Australia, a suburb in Western Australia * Kwinana Desalination Plant * Kwinana Freeway, a major road in Western Australia * Kwinana Grain Terminal, a grain terminal in East Rockingham, Western Australia * Kwinana Power Station, a coal power station * Kwinana railway station, a station of the Mandurah Line * Kwinana Town Centre, Western Australia Kwinana Town Centre is a suburb of the City of Kwinana in the outer southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The suburb comprises three large city blocks and houses the "Kwinana Marketplace" formerly the "Kwinana Hub" shopping centre, the ..., a suburb in Western Australia * SS ''Kwinana'', a ship that was driven ashore at Kwinana Beach in 1922 {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garden Island (Western Australia)
Garden Island (Noongar: ''Meandup'' or ''Meeandip'') is a narrow island about long and wide, lying about off the Western Australian coast, to which it is linked by an artificial causeway and bridge. Like Rottnest Island and Carnac Island, it is a limestone outcrop covered by a thin layer of sand accumulated during an era of lowered sea levels. The Noongar peoples tell of walking to these islands in their Dreamtime. At the end of the last glacial period, the sea level rose, cutting the island off from the mainland. For the last seven thousand years, the island has existed in relative isolation. The Royal Australian Navy's largest fleet base, Fleet Base West, also called HMAS ''Stirling'', is on the shores of Careening Bay, on the southeastern section of Garden Island, facing Cockburn Sound. people lived on the Garden Island base. The entirety of Garden Island is included on the Commonwealth Heritage List for its natural values. Garden Island is home to a tammar wallaby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAS Stirling
HMAS ''Stirling'' is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base that is part of Fleet Base West situated on the west coast of Australia, on the Indian Ocean. The base is located on Garden Island in the state of Western Australia, near the city of Perth. Garden Island also has its own military airport on the island . HMAS ''Stirling'' is currently under the command of Captain Gary Lawton. History HMAS ''Stirling'' is named after Admiral Sir James Stirling (28 January 1791 – 23 April 1865). Stirling, a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator, landed on Garden Island, Western Australia in 1827 and returned as commander of the barque ''Parmelia'' in June 1829 to establish and administer the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. He was the first Governor of Western Australia, serving between 1828 and 1838. The planning of ''Stirling'' began in 1969 when, after it was decided to create the Two-Ocean Policy, a feasibility study into the use of Garden Island as a naval base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algal Bloom
An algal bloom or algae bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in freshwater or marine water systems. It is often recognized by the discoloration in the water from the algae's pigments. The term ''algae'' encompasses many types of aquatic photosynthetic organisms, both macroscopic multicellular organisms like seaweed and microscopic unicellular organisms like cyanobacteria. ''Algal bloom'' commonly refers to the rapid growth of microscopic unicellular algae, not macroscopic algae. An example of a macroscopic algal bloom is a kelp forest. Algal blooms are the result of a nutrient, like nitrogen or phosphorus from various sources (for example fertilizer runoff or other forms of nutrient pollution), entering the aquatic system and causing excessive growth of algae. An algal bloom affects the whole ecosystem. Consequences range from the benign feeding of higher trophic levels to more harmful effects like blocking sunlight from reaching other organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth Seawater Desalination Plant
The Perth Seawater Desalination Plant, located in Naval Base, south of Perth, Western Australia, turns seawater from Cockburn Sound into nearly 140 megalitres of drinking water per day, supplying the Perth metropolitan area. The salt water reverse-osmosis (SWRO) plant was the first of its kind in Australia, and became operational in 2006. It covers several acres in an industrial park near the suburb of Kwinana Beach. Electricity for the plant is generated by the 80 MW Emu Downs Wind Farm located in the state's Midwest region near Cervantes. The wind farm contributes 270 GWh/year into the general power grid, more than offsetting the 180 GWh/year requirement from the desalination plant. The desalination plant, with 12 SWRO trains with a capacity of 160 megalitres per day and six BWRO (brackish water) trains delivering a final product of 144 megalitres per day, was expected to have one of the world’s lowest specific energy consumptions, due in part to the use of pressure exchang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, (22 April 1772 – 19 August 1853) was a British Royal Navy officer. As a captain (Royal Navy), captain he was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), Battle of Cape St Vincent in February 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars and commanded the naval support at the Invasion of Martinique (1809), reduction of Martinique in February 1809 during the Napoleonic Wars. He also directed the capture and Burning of Washington on 24 August 1814 as an advisor to Major General Robert Ross (British Army officer), Robert Ross during the War of 1812. He went on to be First Sea Lord, First Naval Lord and in that capacity sought to improve the standards of gunnery in the fleet, forming a HMS Excellent (shore establishment), gunnery school at Portsmouth; later he ensured that the Navy had the latest steam and screw technology and put emphasis on the ability to manage seamen without the need to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stirling (Royal Navy Officer)
James Stirling may refer to: *James Stirling (mathematician) (1692–1770), Scottish mathematician *Sir James Stirling, 1st Baronet (c.1740–1805), Scottish banker and lord provost of Edinburgh *Sir James Stirling (Royal Navy officer) (1791–1865), British admiral and Governor of Western Australia *James Stirling (engineer, born 1799) (1799–1876), Scottish engineer *James Hutchison Stirling (1820–1909), Scottish philosopher *James Stirling (engineer, born 1835) (1835–1917), Scottish locomotive engineer *Sir James Stirling (judge) (1836–1916), British jurist *James Stirling (botanist) (1852–1909), Australian botanist and geologist *James Stirling (1890s footballer) (fl. 1895–1896), Scottish footballer *Jimmy Stirling (1925–2006), Scottish footballer *Sir James Stirling (architect) (1926–1992), architect *Sir James Stirling of Garden (born 1930), British Army officer, chartered surveyor and Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk *James Stirling (physicist) (1953–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gage Roads
Gage Roads is an area in the outer harbour area of Fremantle Harbour in the Indian Ocean offshore from Fremantle, Western Australia. It incorporates a deep water sea channel as part of its function. Gage Roads serves as a shipping lane and anchorage for sea traffic heading towards the seaport of Fremantle. Gage Roads was the location of the 1987 America's Cup, Rottnest Island lies to the west of Gage Roads, Owen Anchorage and Cockburn Sound lie to the south. The local Gage Roads Brewing Company, as well as the local marine engineering companGage Roads Marine are named after the area. Coastal geology The area is the most northern of one of four coastal basins formed from the flooding of a depression between Pleistocene aeolianite ridges running north-south, and the subsequent deposition of east-west Holocene banks. The seabed of Gage Roads is covered by seagrass. Naming Gage Roads was named after Rear-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage who was the Royal Navy Commander-in-Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnac Island
Carnac Island (Noongar: ''Ngoorloormayup'') is a , A Class, island nature reserve about south-west of Fremantle and north of Garden Island in Western Australia. History Carnac Island is aeolianite limestone remnant of Pleistocene dunes. It is called ''Ngooloormayup ("place of little brother")'' in the language of the Whadjuk Noongar people. In 1803, French explorer Louis de Freycinet, captain of the ''Casuarina'', named the island ''Île Pelée'' (''Bald Island''). It was also known as ''Île Lévilian'' and later ''Île Berthelot''. In 1827, James Stirling changed its name to ''Pulo Carnac Island'' in honour of John Rivett Carnac, Second Lieutenant on his ship . "Pulo" is Malay for "Island"; it is not known why Stirling included the term, and it was soon dropped. From , the island served as a whaling station. The whalers transported Perth's first church to the island to be used as a storehouse. It was abandoned within a few years. From October to November 1838, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Kwinana
The City of Kwinana is a local government area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 118 square kilometres in metropolitan Perth, and lies about 38 km south of Perth central business district, via the Kwinana Freeway. Kwinana maintains 287 km of roads and had a population of almost 39,000 as at the 2016 Census. History Kwinana is a Kimberley Aboriginal word meaning either "young woman" or "pretty maiden". The ship was wrecked on Cockburn Sound in 1922 and blown onto Kwinana Beach. The nearby area acquired the name and it was officially adopted for a township in 1937. Some of its suburbs take their names from the sailing ships that first brought immigrants to Western Australia, for example, Medina, Calista and Parmelia. The Kwinana Road District was formed out of part of Rockingham on 15 February 1954 as a result of the passage of the ''Kwinana Road District Act 1953''. Section 4 of the Act stated that "there shall not be a duly elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
