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Shannon River is a river located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The river rises in the forests to the west of Lake Muir and flows in a southerly direction, crossing the South Western Highway just east of Shannon and then continuing south through the Shannon National Park before entering the Broke Inlet .
Shannon National Park is a national park on the south coast of Western Australia, 302 km (188 mi) south of Perth [2] and 55 km (34 mi) southeast of Manjimup. It was declared a national park in 1988. [3] The park covers the entire Shannon River basin.
The names Shannon and Broke for geographical features in the area were first recorded on a map by John Arrowsmith in 1833. [7] Shannon was the site of a timber mill, [7] with the former location now being a campground in Shannon National Park. [8] The mill operated during the 1950s and 1960s and closed in 1968. [9]
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Most developments have been along the banks of the river Shannon and are facing onto the river. The most prominent are the 60m high Riverpoint building designed by Burke Kennedy Doyle Architects and completed in 2008 and the 200 ft four-star Clayton Hotel on Steamboat Quay, designed by Limerick firm Murray Ó Laoire Architects and completed in ...
King's Island's encirclement by the Shannon and Abbey rivers made it a very defensible location, leading to the founding of Limerick as a Viking settlement in the ninth century. [4] The Abbey River has played a defensive role throughout the city's history, not least during the Cromwellian siege of 1650-51, [5] and the Williamite siege of 1691. [6]
The Lower River Shannon Special Area of Conservation (SAC) incorporates the estuary and is 120 km (75 mi) in length, running from Killaloe to Loop Head. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Shannon has a high tidal range , up to around 5.44 m (17.8 ft) at Limerick docks, such that the estuary has been considered for tidal power schemes, despite occasionally ...