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The Best Attractions In Bunbury

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Bunbury is a coastal city in Western Australia, approximately 175 kilometres south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's third-largest city, with a population just behind that of Mandurah. Located at the south of the Leschenault Estuary, Bunbury was established in 1836 on the orders of Governor James Stirling, and named in honour of its founder, Lieutenant Henry Bunbury. A port was constructed on the existing natural harbour soon after, and eventually became the main port for the wider South West region. Further economic growth was fuelled by completion of the South Western Railway in 1893, which linked Bunbury with Perth. Greater Bunbury incl...
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  • 1. Koombana Bay Bunbury
    SS Koombana was a late Edwardian-era passenger, cargo and mail carrying steamship. From March 1909 to March 1912, she operated coastal liner services between Fremantle, Western Australia and various ports in the northwest of that State. She is best known for disappearing at an unknown location north of Port Hedland, Western Australia, during a tropical cyclone on 20 March 1912, killing 74 passengers and 76 crew; in total, 150 people died.Other than a small quantity of wreckage, no trace was ever found of the ship, which was presumed sunk along with several other vessels during the same storm. At least a further 15 people died in other ships and near the cyclone. As accurate passenger lists were not kept at the time, the exact number of deaths is not known; however, all on board are presume...
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  • 3. Bunbury Wildlife Park Bunbury
    Bunbury is a coastal city in Western Australia, approximately 175 kilometres south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's third-largest city, with a population just behind that of Mandurah. Located at the south of the Leschenault Estuary, Bunbury was established in 1836 on the orders of Governor James Stirling, and named in honour of its founder, Lieutenant Henry Bunbury. A port was constructed on the existing natural harbour soon after, and eventually became the main port for the wider South West region. Further economic growth was fuelled by completion of the South Western Railway in 1893, which linked Bunbury with Perth. Greater Bunbury includes four local government areas , and extends between Yarloop in the north, Boyanup to the south and Capel to the southwest.
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  • 5. Leschenault Inlet Bunbury
    Leschenault Estuary is an estuarine lagoon that lies to the north of Bunbury, Western Australia. It had in the past met the Indian Ocean at the Leschenault Inlet, but that has been altered by harbour works for Bunbury, and the creation of The Cut north of the historical inlet location. The estuary is approximately 13.5 km in length and has a maximum width of approximately 2.5 km . The total area of the estuary is 25 km2 The lagoon is separated from the ocean by a thin peninsula of sand dunes called the Leschenault Peninsula.
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  • 8. Dalyellup Beach Bunbury
    Dalyellup, , is an outer southern suburb of Bunbury, a city in Western Australia, located within the Shire of Capel local government area. The suburb was established in 1999 when the Department of Housing and Works entered into a joint venture with Satterley Property Group to develop Dalyellup Beach Estate, a master-planned community which is expected to yield 3,000 lots by its completion in 2012. In the original advertising campaign, Dalyellup was heavily promoted as A village in the Forest by the Sea. Along this theme the local private Lutheran school is called Ocean Forest.
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  • 14. Dolphin Discovery Centre Bunbury
    The common bottlenose dolphin , or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, is the most well-known species from the family Delphinidae. Common bottlenose dolphins are the most familiar dolphins due to the wide exposure they receive in captivity in marine parks and dolphinaria, and in movies and television programs. The common bottlenose dolphin is the largest species of the beaked dolphins. They inhabit temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, and are absent only from polar waters. Until recently, all bottlenose dolphins were considered as a single species, but now the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and Burrunan dolphin have been split from the common bottlenose dolphin. While formerly named simply as the bottlenose dolphin, this term is now applied to the genus as a whole. The dolphins in...
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