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Scott River (Western Australia)
Scott River is a river in the south west of Western Australia, being a tributary to the Blackwood River where it joins just east of Molloy Island. It is partly within the Scott National Park, which is named after the river. Similarly the coastal plain that the river lies on goes east to Walpole and is known as the Scott Coastal Plain. It is north east of Augusta and south of the Brockman Highway. Scott River Road is the main access road into the catchment area, which leaves the highway near Alexander Bridge. The river catchment area has evidence of early Aboriginal usage of the area. It is the habitat of ''Boronia exilis ''Boronia exilis'' is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect perennial with well-spaced, simple, more or less cylindrical leaves and pink, four-petalled ...'', otherwise known as Scott River boronia, as well as other threatened plant communities. The catchme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackwood River
The Blackwood River is a major river and catchment in the South West of Western Australia. Course The river begins at the junction of Arthur River and Balgarup River near Quelarup and travels in a south westerly direction through the town of Bridgetown then through Nannup until it discharges into the Southern Ocean at Hardy Inlet near the town of Augusta. Hardy Inlet has a number of islands – namely Molloy Island and Thomas Island. The mouth of the river has attracted interest in its various points of opening and closing over the last 100 years, Duke Head at the west side being a benchmark location for the shifting mouth. The river has 42 tributaries including Dinninup Brook, Balingup Brook, St John Brook, Boyup Brook, Tweed River, Ti Tree Gully, Christmas Creek and Tanjannerup Creek. Catchment The river has a total catchment area of stretching from Kukerin in the east to Hardy Inlet in the west, and from Darkan in the north to Augusta in the south. Several m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molloy Island
Molloy Island is a small townsite located in the South West region of Western Australia in the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, specifically on the island in the Blackwood River The Blackwood River is a major river and catchment in the South West of Western Australia. Course The river begins at the junction of Arthur River and Balgarup River near Quelarup and travels in a south westerly direction through the tow .... The island was the location of an attempt at possum farming in the 1920s. References External links Towns in Western Australia Shire of Augusta–Margaret River {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott National Park
Scott National Park is a national park in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of Western Australia, south of Perth. It is based on the catchment area of the Scott River (Western Australia), Scott River and the eastern bank of the Blackwood River, and occurs in part on the Scott Coastal Plain. It has a population of honey possum in the park. It has had reviews of its flora and fauna due to the proximity of mining exploration and activity. See also * Protected areas of Western Australia References National parks of Western Australia Protected areas established in 1959 South West (Western Australia) Warren bioregion {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walpole, Western Australia
Walpole is a town in the south-western region of Western Australia, located approximately south southeast of Perth, and west of Denmark. Location and description Walpole lies very close to the northern point of the Walpole Inlet, from which it takes its name. The inlet in turn is named for the Walpole River, discovered in 1831 by Captain Thomas Bannister, and named by Governor Stirling for Captain W. Walpole, with whom he had served aboard HMS Warspite in 1808. The first European settlers to arrive in the area were Pierre Bellanger and his family in 1909. They travelled aboard the ''Grace Darling'' from Albany to take up of land. Land in the Walpole area was reserved for a national park in 1910, and the area subsequently became a popular holiday destination. Major development began to occur in the 1930s as part of the land settlement scheme. The railway reached Nornalup in 1929, and the Walpole town site was gazetted in 1933. The local electricity grid is remote and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Coastal Plain
Scott Coastal Plain is a plain that lies between the Blackwood Plateau and the south coast of Western Australia, east of Augusta and Cape Leeuwin. The name of the plain is derived from the river that drains the western portion of the plain, the Scott River The Scott River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 9, 2011 river in Siskiyou County, California, United States. It is a tributary of the Klamath River, one of the .... Notes {{reflist, 30em South West (Western Australia) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusta, Western Australia
Augusta is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia, where the Blackwood River emerges into Flinders Bay. It is the nearest town to Cape Leeuwin, on the furthest southwest corner of the Australian continent. In the it had a population of 1,091; by 2016 the population of the town was 1,109 (excluding East Augusta). The town is within the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River local government area, and is in the Leeuwin Ward. It is connected by public transport to Perth via Transwa coach service SW1. Augusta was a summer holiday town for many during most of the twentieth century, but late in the 1990s many people chose to retire to the region for its cooler weather. As a consequence of this and rising land values in the Augusta-Margaret River area, the region has experienced significant social change. History Noongar peoples, the Aboriginal Australian peoples of south-western Australia, inhabited the area for an estimated 45,000 years before the arrival of European sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brockman Highway
Brockman Highway is a highway in Western Australia. A few hours south of Perth, it runs west from Bridgetown, Western Australia, Bridgetown via Nannup, Western Australia, Nannup to Karridale, Western Australia, Karridale. Nannup, Western Australia, Nannup is situated at the junction of the Vasse Highway and the Brockman Highway. See also * Highways in Australia * List of highways in Western Australia References Highways in rural Western Australia {{WesternAustralia-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Bridge
Alexandra Bridge is the name of a locality, and bridges over the Blackwood River in the South West of Western Australia. The locality had a range of groups of people from the area involved in sports clubs, usually from communities very close such as Witchcliffe Witchcliffe is a small town in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of Western Australia, located a few kilometres south of Margaret River, Western Australia, Margaret River on the Bussell Highway. The name originates from a cav .... The first bridge was built in 1897 and destroyed in a 1982 flood. It has camping facilities, and is similar to other bridge locations on the river like Sues Bridge, which is in the Blackwood River National Park. Notes {{coord missing, Western Australia Blackwood River Bridges in Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands. The term Indigenous Australians refers to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders collectively. It is generally used when both groups are included in the topic being addressed. Torres Strait Islanders are ethnically and culturally distinct, despite extensive cultural exchange with some of the Aboriginal groups. The Torres Strait Islands are mostly part of Queensland but have a separate governmental status. Aboriginal Australians comprise many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, but only in the last 200 years have they been defined and started to self-identify as a single group. Australian Aboriginal identity has cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boronia Exilis
''Boronia exilis'' is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect perennial with well-spaced, simple, more or less cylindrical leaves and pink, four-petalled flowers in groups of between three and nine on the ends of the branches. Description ''Boronia exilis'' is an erect perennial with slender stems that grows to a height of about and has many slender, glabrous branches. The leaves are simple, more or less cylindrical long and fall off early so that there are few leaves on the lower part of the stems. The flowers are pink and are borne in groups of between three and nine, each on a pedicel long with hairy bracts at the base that fall off as the flower develops. The four sepals are dark red, hairy on both sides and about long. The four petals are pink, oblong to elliptic and about long and the eight stamens are hairy. Taxonomy and naming ''Boronia exilis'' was first formally described i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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