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The suburb of Esperance is the central business district of the town of Esperance, in the Shire of Esperance, Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is located on Esperance Bay, on the Southern Ocean. [2] [3] The suburb of Esperance is on the traditional land of the Njunga people of the Noongar nation.
The Shire of Esperance is a local government area in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) south of the town of Kalgoorlie and about 720 kilometres (450 mi) east-southeast of the state capital, Perth.
Originally selected as a siding on the Norseman to Esperance railway in 1926, Dowak was gazetted as a townsite in 1928. Dowak is a Noongar word for the waddy, a hardwood club or hunting stick. [5] [6] An official 1928 map of the townsite shows the town to include the area within the current boundaries and the neighbouring nature reserve. The ...
Beaumont is a rural locality of the Shire of Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The locality is home to six nature reserves. Mount Beaumont, with a height of 276 metres (906 ft), is located in the north-west of Beaumont, just outside the Beaumont Nature Reserve. [2] [3]
Nulsen is a western suburb of Esperance, a town in south-eastern Western Australia. Its local government area is the Shire of Esperance . The suburb was gazetted in 1971, initially including the entire neighbouring suburb of Sinclair , which was separated in 1985.
Esperance also has a number of wind turbines supplying electricity to the town. [29] Esperance had the first electrical wind farm in Australia, built at Salmon Beach as a research facility in 1987. In October 2020, a surfer who was a member of the local community in Esperance was killed by a shark at Wylie Bay near the town. [30]
Pink Lake is an outer western suburb of Esperance, a town in south-eastern Western Australia. Its local government area is the Shire of Esperance, and it is located 5 kilometres (3 mi) west-northwest of Esperance's central business district. [2] [3] It is named for Pink Lake, a pink-blue lake located within its boundaries.
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