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Margaret River is a large town in the South West of Western Australia, located in the valley of the eponymous Margaret River, 277 kilometres (172 mi) south of Perth, the state capital. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River .
The Margaret River is a river in southwest Western Australia. In a small catchment, it is the eponym of the town and tourist region of Margaret River . The river arises from a catchment of just 40 square kilometres in the Whicher Range .
Margaret River Airport (IATA: MQZ, ICAO: YMGT) is located in Bramley near Margaret River, Western Australia.It was established in 1981 and sealed in 1999. [2] [3]The airport is used by the Royal Flying Doctor Service and private charter flights. [2]
The Shire of Augusta Margaret River is a local government area in the south-west corner of the South West region of Western Australia, approximately 270 kilometres (168 mi) south of Perth. The shire covers an area of 2,243 square kilometres (866 sq mi) and had a population of over 14,000 at the 2016 Census , about half of whom live in the towns ...
Dunsborough, Yallingup, Margaret River Caves Road is a 111-kilometre-long (69 mi) [ 1 ] scenic route in the South West region of Western Australia. It connects western Busselton with Augusta , running along or to the west of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste ridge, and is an alternative route to Bussell Highway .
Leeuwin is a rural locality of the Shire of Augusta–Margaret River in the South West region of Western Australia. The locality is surrounded by the Indian Ocean on three sides. Cape Leeuwin and the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse are located within the locality of Leeuwin, being its southern-most point. [2] [3]
The Margaret River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.. The river was named on 29 May 1879 by the explorer Alexander Forrest, during an expedition in the Kimberley area, after his sister-in-law Margaret Elvire Forrest, wife of his brother and superior, Deputy Surveyor-General John Forrest, who was later to be Premier of Western Australia.
Surfing in this region was well-established in the 1970s, [5] [full citation needed] with a 1970 government mapping guide to the region identifying surfing locations. [6] By the 1990s, the names of the individual breaks were so well-established [7] that online and print published guides were able to locate and identify the behaviours of the breaks.