Augusta, Western Australia
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Augusta is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia, where the Blackwood River flows into Flinders Bay. It is the nearest town to Cape Leeuwin, on the furthest southwest corner of the Australian continent. In the 2001 census it had a population of 1,091; by 2016 the population of the town was 1,109.
Blackwood Avenue, Augusta, 2015
Painting of Augusta by Thomas Turner, 1830s.
The Town Beach whale stranding, 1986.
Flinders Bay
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Flinders Bay is a bay that is immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River.
Plaque at Point Matthew lookout on road to Cape Leeuwin
Augusta Boat Harbour entrance in 2013
View of the Flinders Bay whaling and settlement from the north
View of the head of the bay from the ridge to the west, Blackwood River to the left