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The Cane River is a river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.With its headwaters rising west of the Hamersley Range, the river flows in a north-westerly direction through the Cane River Conservation Park and over the Onslow Coastal Plain, and eventually discharges into the Indian Ocean near Yardie Landing approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) north-east of Onslow.
At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, 6,511,458 hectares (16,090,160 acres) of land in Western Australia was covered by national park, which is 8.55 percent of all protected areas in the state. Overall, just over 30 percent of Western Australia is covered by protected areas. [2]
The Muir Highway passes through the locality from west to east while the Kent River passes through its north before forming much of its western border. Most of the locality south of the highway is taken up by the Mount Roe National Park while, to the north of the highway, the Randell Road and the unnamed WA11343 Nature Reserves are located. [3] [4]
On 27 April 1972, the national park was reconstituted as the Western River Conservation Park under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. [8] On 15 October 1993, the majority of its extent was proclaimed under the Wilderness Protection Act 1992 as a wilderness protection area with the remainder being added on the 5 October 2006. [9] [10] [11 ...
Proclaimed an A Class Reserve on 13 April 1977, it is the largest national park in Western Australia. [2] The park was initially listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1978 as Rudall River National Park, and was noted as "significant for maintaining ongoing geomorphic and ecological processes within a tropical desert environment. It ...
The Vasse Highway forms the western and south-western border of the locality. Most of the Greater Beedelup National Park is located within Beedelup. [2] [3] Beedelup is located on the traditional land of the Bibulman people of the Noongar nation. [4] [5] [6] The heritage listed Beedelup Falls are located within Beedelup and the Greater Beedelup ...
Kennedy Range National Park is a national park in Gascoyne region of Western Australia, approximately 830 kilometres (520 mi) [2] north of Perth and about 150 km (93 mi) [3] east of Carnarvon. Kennedy Range is found on the edge of the Gascoyne River catchment area and is a weathered plateau that extends for a distance of 150 km (93 mi), [ 4 ...
The Ngari Capes Marine Park is a marine protected area on the lower south west coast of Western Australia, located approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) south of Perth.The 123,790-hectare (305,900-acre) marine park was gazetted on 12 June 2012 () [2] and the park's western and southern boundaries are the limit of coastal waters of Western Australia, [1] abutting the South-west Corner Marine ...