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National Park Attractions In Western Australia

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Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and 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 2,529,875 square kilometres , and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11% of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79% of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the re...
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National Park Attractions In Western Australia

  • 1. Cape Le Grand National Park Esperance
    Cape Le Grand National Park is a national park in Western Australia, 631 km south-east of Perth and 56 km east of Esperance. The park covers an area of 31,801 hectares The area is an ancient landscape which has been above sea level for well over 200 million years and remained unglaciated. As a result, the area is home to many primitive relict species.Established in 1966, the park is managed by the Department of Parks and Wildlife. The name Le Grand is from one of the officers on L'Espérance, one of the ships in the 1792 expedition of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.
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  • 2. Nambung National Park Cervantes
    Nambung National Park is a national park in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 200 km northwest of Perth, Australia and 17 km south of the small coastal town of Cervantes. The park contains the Pinnacles Desert which is an area with thousands of limestone formations called pinnacles.The park derives its name from an indigenous Australian word possibly meaning crooked or winding. The word was first used in 1938 when naming the Nambung River which flows into the park and disappears into a cave system within the limestone. The Yued people are the acknowledged traditional custodians of the land since before the arrival of Europeans.Nambung National Park also contains beaches at Kangaroo Point and Hangover Bay, as well as coastal dunes and flowering plants in low heathland areas. A boar...
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  • 3. Mirima National Park Kununurra
    Mirima National Park also commonly known as Hidden Valley National Park is a National Park in far northern Western Australia located at the eastern side of the Kimberley region. It is located approximately 2,220 kilometres from Perth just outside the township of Kununurra. The park covers a total area of 2,068 hectares and was declared a national park in 1982.Unusual sandstone formations dominate the park and are often compared to the Bungle Bungles. The area is of great significance to the local indigenous peoples, the Miriuwung, and several examples of rock art can be found within the park.Mirima is the name given by the Miriwoong people to the area extending some 150 kilometres to the north and south, and 170 kilometres to the east and west from Kununurra. Access to the park is via a se...
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  • 4. El Questro Wilderness Park Kununurra
    El Questro Wilderness Park is a wilderness park on El Questro Station, a cattle station that diversified its pastoral operation to include tourism, located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It remains a working cattle station with a herd of approximately 6,000 head. In 2012 the pastoral station lessee was GPT Funds Management Pty Ltd. El Questro station operates under Crown Lease number CL207-1984 and has Land Act number LA3114/1180.The park is located 110 kilometres west of Kununurra and is accessed from the Gibb River Road and encompasses an area of over 1,000,000 acres that extends some 80 kilometres into the heart of the Kimberley.The station was first established in 1903. Will and Celia Burrell bought the cattle station in 1991 and developed it into a wilderness park touri...
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  • 5. Fitzgerald River National Park Bremer Bay
    Fitzgerald River National Park is a national park in the Shires of Ravensthorpe and the Jerramungup in Western Australia, 419 kilometres southeast of Perth.
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  • 6. Warren National Park Pemberton
    The Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree, a 75 m tall karri tree, was pegged for climbing to celebrate Australia's bicentenary in 1988. The tree is located within Warren National Park in southwestern Australia. Although it has been used as a fire lookout, the tree is mainly used as a tourist attraction. The lookout platform is reached by climbing 165 metal spikes hammered into the trunk.The Bicentennial Tree is one of three lookout trees, along with the Diamond and Gloucester Tree, which remain climbable by tourists. All three trees are located near Pemberton, Western Australia.
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  • 7. Walpole-Nornalup National Park Walpole
    Walpole-Nornalup National Park is a national park in the South West region of Western Australia, 355 km south of Perth. It is famous for its towering Karri and Tingle trees. Red Tingle trees are unique to the Walpole area.
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  • 8. Gloucester National Park Pemberton
    Gloucester National Park is a national park in Western Australia, 281 km south of Perth and about 3 km from Pemberton. This park contains the Gloucester Tree, a renowned karri tree. Visitors can climb up to a viewing platform 61 metres above the ground, using the climbing pegs inserted into the tree. The tree and the park are named after the then Governor General the Duke of Gloucester who visited the area in 1946.The tree served as a fire lookout and had the platform, cabin and climbing pegs installed in 1947, it was one of eight lookout trees constructed in the area between 1937 and 1952.By 1963 it was estimated that over 3,000 people had climbed the tree, and in 1973 the original wooden cabin was demolished and replaced with an aluminium and steel cabin and gallery.Another attraction in...
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  • 10. Shannon National Park Manjimup
    Shannon National Park is a national park on the south coast of Western Australia, 302 km south of Perth and 55 km southeast of Manjimup. It was declared a national park in 1988. The park covers the entire Shannon River basin. The area contains biologically rich wetlands and heathlands as well as old growth and regrowth karri forests. The area remained largely untouched by logging until the 1940s due to the inaccessibility of the area. A timber mill and the town of Shannon were established in the mid-1940s as a result of a timber shortage during World War II. The town once boasted over 90 homes and a hall, post office, church and nursing station. A dam was built in 1949 to guarantee water supply during the summer months.The mill eventually closed in 1968 and the houses were sold and moved l...
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  • 11. Beelu National Park Mundaring
    Beelu National Park is a national park east of Perth, Western Australia. Lying south of Mundaring, Western Australia, and west of the Mundaring Weir Road, it is part of the group of parks known as the Parks of the Darling Range. The park was formerly named Mundaring National Park. Mundaring National Park was established and gazetted in 1995 as part of the Protecting Out Old Growth Forests policy of the State Government. The park was renamed in 2008 as an acknowledgement of the traditional owners of the area. The word Beelu is derived from the Noongar word for river or stream. The Beelu people were the original peoples of the area whose district was bounded by the Helena, Swan and Canning Rivers.The park contains an abundance of native flora including Jarrah, Marri, Zamia, Bull Banksia, She...
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  • 12. Beedelup National Park Pemberton
    Greater Beedelup National Park is a national park in Western Australia, 277 km south of Perth. It is situated on the Vasse Highway some 10 km west of Pemberton. The park is especially lush and damp due to an abundance of water.Gazetted in 1910, the park was declared an A Class Reserve in 1915. The Pemberton National Parks Board has been responsible for management of the park since 1957. Controlled burns occur within the park and some clear felling operations have been conducted in selected areas that used to be State Forests but have also been regenerated since. The park is mostly karri forest, with mixed areas of jarrah and marri. The loamy soil supports large colonies of moss and plants such as the swamp peppermint, hibbertia, karri hazel, waterbush, myrtle wattle and lemonscented Darwin...
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  • 13. Cape Naturaliste Walking Trails Cape Naturaliste
    The Cape to Cape Walk Track is a long-distance walk trail located in the far south-west corner of Western Australia, 250 kilometres south of Perth. It meanders along the whole length of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, which forms the backbone of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park. Its start and finish are the lighthouses at the tips of Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin. The Track extends over 123 kilometres of coastal scenery, sheltered forests and pristine beaches, and is in close proximity to the caves, vineyards and other features and attractions of the South West Capes - Margaret River Region.
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  • 14. Torndirrup National Park Albany
    Torndirrup National Park is a national park in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 400 kilometres southeast of Perth and via Frenchman Bay Road is10 km south of Albany. Torndirrup National Park has many impressive rock formations on the coast. These include the Gap, Natural Bridge and the Blowholes all shaped from the local granite. The park is along the coast on the west side of King George Sound and consists of a range of cliffs, gullies, blowholes, beaches and promontories.
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