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Southwest Australia is a biogeographic region in Western Australia. It includes the Mediterranean-climate area of southwestern Australia, which is home to a diverse and distinctive flora and fauna. The region is also known as the Southwest Australia Global Diversity Hotspot .
The South West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It has an area of 23,970 km 2 , and a population of about 170,000 people. [ 1 ] Bunbury is the main city in the region.
Western Australia occupies nearly one third of the Australian continent.Due to the size and the isolation of the state, considerable emphasis has been made of these features; it is the second largest administrative territory in the world, after Yakutia in Russia, despite the fact that Australia is only the sixth largest country in the world by area, and no other regional administrative ...
The ecoregion is part of the Southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot. The original habitat consists of savanna dotted with eucalyptus woodland , mallee woodlands and shrublands , and heath . Although the more fertile southern areas have now mostly been converted to wheat fields, more original savanna remains in the north of the region where ...
Western Australia is the largest state, covering just under one third of the Australian landmass, followed by Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales. Australia also has several minor territories; the federal government administers a separate area within New South Wales, the Jervis Bay Territory, as a naval base and seaport for the ...
See also the Bureau of Meteorology's Western Australia regions map. [8] The Western Australian system of regions defined by the Government of Western Australia for purposes of economic development administration, which excludes the Perth metropolitan area, is a series of nine regions. The nine defined regions are: Gascoyne; Goldfields–Esperance
A Thorny Devil in the Great Western Woodlands Carnaby's black cockatoo, endemic to south-western Australia. The Western Australian Museum and BirdLife Australia have recorded that within the Great Western Woodlands there are 49 species of mammals, 14 species of frogs, 138 species of reptiles, and 215 species of birds. As more biological surveys ...
The Southwest Shelf Province includes the coastal waters and continental shelf of south west Western Australia, extending from the vicinity of Perth on the west coast to Israelite Bay on the south coast. The continental shelf is generally narrow, with some small offshore islets, including the Recherche Archipelago. The coastline is affected by ...