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 Austr
Blackwood Avenue, Augusta, 2015
Painting of Augusta by Thomas Turner, 1830s.
The Town Beach whale stranding, 1986.
Hamelin Bay is a bay and a locality on the southwest coast of Western Australia between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste. It is named after French explorer Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, who sailed
Augusta, Western Australia
…sighted by Europeans in March 1622 when the Dutch East India Company ship Leeuwin (Lioness) mapped and named the land north of Cape Leeuwin between Hamelin Bay and Point D'Entrecasteaux 't Landt van de Leeuwin. In 1801 Captain Matthew Flinders named the "south-western, and most projecting part of Leeuwin's…
Hamelin Bay
Hamelin Bay Jetty in 1899
Railway connection with Karridale and Boranup – see also Hamelin Bay chart