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French Western Australia
French Western Australia () was a French territorial claim in modern-day Western Australia. It was made at Dirk Hartog Island by an expedition under French explorer Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn in 1772. History French expedition On 28 March 1772, the French navigator Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn landed on Dirk Hartog Island "and became the first European to claim possession of Western Australia". The actual claim for French Western Australia on behalf of King Louis XV was made at (literally, 'Bay of taking Possession'; later ''Turtle Bay''), Dirk Hartog Island on 30 March 1772 by officer Jean Mengaud de la Hage while Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn remained aboard the ship. Members of Mengaud's ceremonial team raised the royal flag on the island and buried a bottle containing a document stating what had occurred, alongside two silver ''écu'' coins, worth six ''Livres tournois'' (Francs). This occurred in sight of Cape Inscription, where in 1696 the Dutch mariner Willem de Vlamingh h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Peron
Cape Peron is a headland at Rockingham, at the southern end of Cockburn Sound in Western Australia. The cape is locally known as Point Peron, and is noted for its protected beaches, limestone cliffs, reefs and panoramic views. Cape Peron includes the suburb of Peron, and "Point Peron" is the designation of a minor promontory on the south side of the cape's extremity. The feature was named after the French naturalist and zoologist François Péron, who accompanied the expedition of Nicolas Baudin along the western coast of Australia in 1801. A causeway was constructed in 1973 between Cape Peron and Garden Island to carry vehicular traffic between the mainland and the island. Since the island houses HMAS Stirling, a Royal Australian Navy base, access is restricted by the military. The wreck of RMS ''Orizaba'' (1886–1905) lies on Five Fathom Bank, west of the cape. Land use The cape and southern environs comprise a crown land reserve on which a number of recreational resor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesueur National Park
Lesueur National Park is a national park straddling the boundary between the Wheatbelt and Mid West regions of Western Australia, 211 km north of Perth. The park was gazetted in 1992. It includes two mesas known as Mount Lesueur and Mount Michaud, and supports a highly diverse flora. Flora Lesueur National Park lies in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion, which is characterised by scrubby heath with a high number of plants from the family Proteaceae. Vegetation in the park is structurally complex, with patches of woodland amongst shrublands. There are over 900 indigenous plant species in the park, many of which are endemic. Rare or threatened species include the Mount Lesueur Grevillea, Forrest's Wattle, the Lesueur Hakea and the Laterite Mallee. The park is the northern limit for Jarrah and Mountain Marri, both of which grow as mallees instead of the more usual tall tree form. Lesueur National Park is under threat from the effects of Phytophthora dieback, a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leschenault Estuary
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 in length and has a maximum width of approximately . The total area of the estuary is The lagoon is separated from the ocean by a thin peninsula of sand dunes called the Leschenault Peninsula. Catchment The catchment area below Wellington Dam for the estuary covers . The catchment includes part of the Swan Coastal Plain, the Darling Scarp and the Darling Plateau. The Collie and Preston Rivers are the main catchment rivers and enter the estuary from the southern end and with the catchment runoff discharging into the Indian Ocean via the cut in the peninsula. Other rivers in the catchment area include the Brunswick River, Ferguson and Wellesley as well as numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leschenault, Western Australia
Leschenault is an outer suburb of Australind, Western Australia, 6 km to the north-east. Its local government area is the Shire of Harvey. Leschenault is generally considered to be a higher socioeconomic area, with higher than average real estate prices. History The name ''Leschenault'' honours botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, who was part of Nicolas Baudin's 1802–1803 voyage which visited the coast and explored the estuary and nearby rivers. However, the first reported sighting of the coast was by Captain A.P. Jonk in the VOC ''Emeloort'', who sighted land at 33°12' (most likely opposite the estuary from Australind) on 24 February 1658 while looking for the Vergulde Draeck but did not land. Until the 1980s, the area was used only for low-level agriculture such as grazing, and some holiday homes were built along Cathedral Drive (formerly Scenic Drive) – as recently as 1988, the area was undeveloped. In the mid-1980s the State Government and the Shire o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelin, Western Australia
Lancelin is a small fishing and tourist town north of Perth, Western Australia. It is within the Shire of Gingin at the end of Lancelin Road, and a few kilometres away from the scenic highway Indian Ocean Drive (State Route 60). Lancelin is close to the shipwreck site of () that was wrecked on rocks close to shore in 1656. The town has a permanent population of over 600, and swells to 2,500 during the peak holiday period around Christmas and New Year. History The town's name originates from nearby Lancelin Island which was named after Lancelin, the scientific writer of Nicolas Baudin during his 1801 expedition. The area was initially a holiday camping place through the 1940s and holiday shacks were probably built in the area during this time, but interest in the area grew as it was designated as a possible port to be utilised by the crayfish or lobster fishery. One such vessel used at Lancelin was in the 1960s, now preserved in the Western Australian Maritime Museum. La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurien Bay, Western Australia
Jurien Bay is a coastal town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, north of Perth facing the Indian Ocean. History The coastline around Jurien Bay was first known to Europeans in the 17th century. In 1801–03, an expedition under the command of Nicolas Baudin sailed along the Western Australian coast. Louis de Freycinet, a cartographic surveyor on the expedition, named Jurien Bay after Charles Marie Jurien (1763–1836) of the French naval administration. The area was visited by a number of English explorers from 1822 onwards. The bay was first surveyed by Captain James Harding, the harbourmaster of Fremantle, in 1865, with a more extensive survey made by Staff Commander W. E. Archdeacon R.N. in 1875. The first settlement was established in the mid-1850s by Walter Padbury. A jetty was constructed in 1885–87 due to the success of pastoralism. In the early 1900s, a temporary fishing village was built around the Jurien jetty and the coastal waters were used for cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographe Bay
Geographe Bay is in the south-west of Western Australia, around southwest of Perth. The bay was named in May 1801 by French explorer Nicolas Baudin, after his ship, ''Géographe''. It is a wide curve of coastline extending from Cape Naturaliste past the towns of Dunsborough and Busselton, ending near the city of Bunbury. Protected from the rough seas of the Indian Ocean by Cape Naturaliste (named after ''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 Busselton Jetty, the longest in the southern hemisphere, was built. Royal Australian Navy The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the navy, naval branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (Australia), Chief of Navy (CN) Vice admiral (Australia), Vice Admiral Mark Hammond (admiral), Ma ... frigate was sunk in the bay off the town of Dunsboro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francois Peron National Park
Francois Peron National Park is a national park on the Peron Peninsula in Western Australia, north of Perth, and located within the boundary of the Shark Bay World Heritage area. The nearest towns to the park are Denham, which is found on the southern edge of the park and Carnarvon which is found about to the north. There is also an eponymous locality of the Shire of Shark Bay, but the boundaries of the national park and the locality are not identical. Names and earlier uses Aboriginal Australians are the initial inhabitants of the area and have been living in it for over 26,000 years. The local peoples, who speak the Malgana language, call the area . It is named after the French naturalist and explorer François Péron who was the zoologist aboard Nicolas Baudin's 1801 and 1803 scientific expeditions to Western Australia, and is situated within the bounds of the earlier pastoral lease of the Peron Station. Locations from the French exploration era include: * Guichenault ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esperance, Western Australia
Esperance () is a town in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, on the Southern Ocean coastline approximately east-southeast of the state capital, Perth and south of Kalgoorlie. The urban population of Esperance was 12,003 at June 2018. Its major industries are tourism, agriculture, and fishing industry, fishing. History European history of the region dates back to 1627 when the Dutch vessel 't Gulden Zeepaert (ship, 1626), ''Gulden Zeepaert'', skippered by François Thijssen, passed through waters off the Esperance coast and continued across the Great Australian Bight. French explorers are credited with making the first landfall near the present day town, naming it and other local landmarks while sheltering from a storm in this area in 1792. The town itself was named after a French ship, the French ship Espérance (1781), ''Espérance'', commanded by Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec. is French for "hope". In 1802, British navigator Matthew Flinders sailed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Entrecasteaux National Park
D'Entrecasteaux National Park is a national park in Western Australia, south of Perth. The park is named after the French Admiral Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux who was the first European to sight the area and name Point D'Entrecasteaux in 1792. The park received 168,497 visitors through 2008–2009. Description The park stretches from Black Point in the west to Long Point in the east and extends inland as far as . Black Point is made of basalt columns from a lava flow that occurred 135 million years ago. An interesting feature in the park is Yeagarup dune, a mobile long sand dune found to the west of Lake Jasper. The park contains a great variety of scenery, including beaches, sand-dunes, coastal cliffs, coastal heath and pockets of karri forest. Rivers such as the Warren, the Donnelly and the Shannon flow through the park and discharge into the waters off-shore. Important large scale wetlands, known as the Blackwater, and lakes such as Lake Jasper and Lake Yeagarup a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Capel
The Shire of Capel is a local government area in the South West region of Western Australia, taking in the land between the cities of Bunbury and Busselton about south of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and its seat of government is the town of Capel. The Shire of Capel has 29 km of beach frontage onto Geographe Bay including access at Forrest Beach, Peppermint Grove Beach, Minninup Beach and Dalyellup Beach. The eight kilometer stretch of Stirling Beach (commencing at the Capel River, north to the Minninup Beach access at Rich Road) has no public access points since all the adjacent land is privately owned. According to the 2016 census figures, the population of the Shire of Capel was 17,123. History Capel was initially constituted as the first Bunbury Road District on 15 June 1894 (as distinguished from the Bunbury Municipal District). On 26 July 1907, it was renamed to the Capel Road District, and on 1 July 1961, it became a shire under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
