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Mount Dale
Mount Dale is a mountain in Western Australia about east of Armadale in the Shire of Beverley. At high, it is one of the highest points in the Darling Scarp. It is best known for its walk track, which forms part of the Bibbulmun Track. The track leads from a parking and picnic area to the summit, passing through of jarrah forest, which is coloured by a host of wildflower A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, rather than being intentionally seeded or planted. The term implies that the plant is neither a hybrid nor a selected cultivar that is any different from the native plant, eve ...s in spring. South of Mundaring Weir, Mount Dale is visible when looking south-southeast from Glen Forrest outside Helena College on Bilgoman Road. Mount Dale was once the site of a fire lookout tower as it provides almost uninterrupted 360° views over the National Park and surrounding State Forest areas. a 1925 reflection on being in the fire tower Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karragullen, Western Australia
Karragullen is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Armadale. Its postcode is 6111. Prior to 1949, it was a stopping place on the Upper Darling Range railway. The suburb is an agricultural area and is predominantly known as orchard An orchard is an intentional plantation of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit tree, fruit- or nut (fruit), nut-producing trees that are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also so ... country. Many of the orchards were developed by Italian migrants in the 1930s and 1940s, and these have subsequently been taken over by their 1st and 2nd generation Australian descendants. The Karragullen area borders the Canning Dam reservoir zone and the start of bushland in the east-southeast direction from Perth. It neighbours Pickering Brook to the east and Roleystone to the west. Once a year, Karragullen hosts a field day that showcases the local industries and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundaring Weir
Mundaring Weir is a concrete gravity dam (and historically the adjoining locality) located from Perth, Western Australia in the Darling Scarp. The dam and reservoir form the boundary between the suburbs of Reservoir and Sawyers Valley. The dam impounds the Helena River. History A soldier, Ensign Robert Dale, became the first European to explore the region in 1829. European populations did not grow significantly until construction of the dam in the late 1890s. This involved the building of a Mundaring Weir railway line from Mundaring to the Mundaring Weir site. The Irish Australian engineer C. Y. O'Connor was involved in the design of a scheme that transported water to the Eastern Goldfields of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in the eastern part of Western Australia. The weir was completed in 1903. The lake created by the dam was known as the Helena River Reservoir, it was renamed as Lake C.Y. O'Connor in 2004. The owner of the dam, the Water Corporation, refers to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountains Of Western Australia
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the ecosystems of mountains: different elevations have different plants and animals. Because of the less hospitable terrain and climate, mountains te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Gunjin, Western Australia
Mount Gunjin () is a point of high ground between Mundaring Weir and Kalamunda, south of the Mundaring Weir Road. It is north of Mount Dale and south west of Mundaring Weir. It was the location of a Western Australian Forestry Department fire-watching tower, which had a few names including ''Mount Gunjin lookout tower''. The fire tower and hut site are identified in the Kattamordo Heritage Trail pamphlet as being constructed in 1921. Prior to the relocation of the Perth Observatory The Perth Observatory is the name of two astronomical observatory, observatories located in Western Australia (WA). In 1896, the original observatory was founded in West Perth, Western Australia, West Perth on Mount Eliza (Western Australia), ... from Mount Eliza to Bickley, a site near Mount Gunjin had been considered for the observatory. In 1966 Mount Gunjin became the origin point in Western Australia for the National Geodetic Survey. See also * Mount Cooke Notes Gunjin Fire loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Cooke
Mount Cooke, near the Western Australia town of Jarrahdale, is one of the highest points on the Darling Scarp, at . It was named after William Ernest Cooke, Western Australia's first Government Astronomer. Mount Cooke is well known for its walk track, which is part of the Bibbulmun Track. The Bibbulmun Track leads from a parking and picnic area, and goes thousands of metres through the jarrah forest, coloured with a host of wildflowers in all seasons, to the summit of Mount Cooke. Mount Cooke is within the Monadnocks Conservation Park and administered by the Department of Environment and Conservation. See also *Mount Dale Mount Dale is a mountain in Western Australia about east of Armadale in the Shire of Beverley. At high, it is one of the highest points in the Darling Scarp. It is best known for its walk track, which forms part of the Bibbulmun Track. Th ... * Mount Gunjin References Cooke Shire of Boddington Darling Range {{WesternAustralia-ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dale (explorer)
Lieutenant Robert Dale (181020 July 1853) was the first European ethnic groups, European explorer to cross the Darling Range in Western Australia. Robert Dale was born in Winchester, England in November 1810, son of Major Thurston Dale and Helen Matthews. Through the influence of his great-uncle General William Dyott, on 25 October 1827, he was appointed an ensign (rank), ensign in the British Army's 63rd (The West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot, 63rd Regiment of Foot. In February 1829 Dale embarked for the Swan River Colony on as part of a detachment of troops commanded by Captain Frederick Chidley Irwin, arriving 6 June 1829. On arrival at the colony, he was seconded as an assistant to Surveyor General of Western Australia, Surveyor General John Septimus Roe, whose Survey Department was suffering under an extreme workload. Dale spent four years with the Survey Department, surveying, clearing roads, and exploring. He was the first European to cross the Darling Range, where he dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 - 1954)
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