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Nature Attractions In Margaret River Region

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Margaret River is a town in the South West of Western Australia, located in the valley of the eponymous Margaret River, 277 kilometres south of Perth, the state capital. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River. Margaret River's coast to the west of the town is a renowned surfing location, with worldwide fame for its surf breaks including, but not limited to, Main Break, The Box, and Rivadog. Colloquially, the area is referred to as Margs, or Margie Rivs.The surrounding area is the Margaret River Wine Region and is known for its wine production and tourism, attracting an estimated 500,000 visitors annually. In earlier days the a...
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Nature Attractions In Margaret River Region

  • 2. Lake Cave Margaret River
    Blue Lake National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 44 kilometres east of Brisbane on North Stradbroke Island. Access is provided by road 9 kilometres west of Dunwich. Camping, open fires, and domestic animals are not permitted in the park.
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  • 3. Sugarloaf Rock Cape Naturaliste
    Sugarloaf Rock, also known as Sugarloaf Rocks and Sugar Loaf Rock, is a large, natural granite island in the Indian Ocean just off the coast situated approximately 2 kilometres south of Cape Naturaliste in the South West region of Western Australia. It is separated from the mainland by a thin channel of treacherous water. The rock is one of the most photographed attractions and it has appeared on the cover of the Australian Geographic magazine.The rock derives its name from the distinctive conical shape reminiscent of an old style sugarloaf.It is designated as a nature reserve and a nesting site for seabirds such as the red-tailed tropicbird.The Cape to Cape track passes by the lookout to the rock.Access to the rock was limited with no road down to the shore present until the mid-1930s; th...
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  • 4. Ngilgi Cave Yallingup
    Ngilgi Cave, previously known as Yallingup Cave, is a karst cave to the northeast of Yallingup, in the southwest of Western Australia. In many sections of the cave a red layer of soil can be seen; this is called paleosol.
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  • 6. Yallingup Beach Yallingup
    Yallingup is a town in the South West region of Western Australia, 266 kilometres south of Perth. Yallingup is a popular tourist destination because of its beaches and limestone caves, and proximity to Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park.
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  • 7. Canal Rocks Yallingup
    Canal Rocks is a series of granite rocks in the Indian Ocean just off the coast situated approximately 4 kilometres south of Yallingup in the South West region of Western Australia. The Noongar name for this place is Winjee Sam.The rock formation takes its name from the narrow channel between the rocks that has formed from the coastal waters eroding the granite-gneiss away over time. The rocks that make up the canals are part of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, or Leeuwin complex. The rocks that make up the feature consist of hornblende-biotite monzogranite gneiss that are medium to coarse-grained and moderately foliated containing minerals such as perthite, quartz, hornblende with accessory biotite, opaques, apatite, and zircon. The original rock that underwent medium metamorphism was grani...
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  • 8. Hamelin Bay Margaret River
    Hamelin Bay is a bay and a locality on the south-west coast of Western Australia between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste. It is named after French explorer Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin who sailed through the area in about 1801. It is south of Cape Freycinet. To the north, the beach leads to the Boranup Sand Patch and further to the mouth of the Margaret River, while south leads to Cape Leeuwin. The nearest locality to the east is Karridale on the Margaret River to Augusta road. It was also a small settlement and port in Western Australia on the coast of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge.
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  • 10. Geographe Bay Dunsborough
    Geographe Bay is in the south-west of Western Australia around 220 km southwest of Perth. The bay was named in May 1801 by French explorer Nicolas Baudin; Baudin named the bay after his ship, Géographe. The bay is a wide curve of coastline extending from Cape Naturaliste past the towns of Dunsborough and Busselton, ending near the city of Bunbury. The bay is protected from the rough seas of the Indian Ocean by Cape Naturaliste , which makes it a popular destination for recreational boaters. The bay is extremely shallow, limiting the entrance of large ships. To alleviate this problem the two-kilometre-long Busselton Jetty, the longest in the southern hemisphere, was built. The Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Swan was sunk in the bay off the town of Dunsborough on 14 December 1997, for u...
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  • 13. Smiths Beach Yallingup
    Yallingup is a town in the South West region of Western Australia, 266 kilometres south of Perth. Yallingup is a popular tourist destination because of its beaches and limestone caves, and proximity to Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park.
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