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Symbols of Australian Capital Territory [9] Northern Territory: Coat of arms of the Northern Territory: Sturt's desert rose: Wedge-tailed eagle: Red kangaroo-Black, white and red ochre --Symbols of the Northern Territory [10] Norfolk Island: Coat of arms of Norfolk Island: Phillip Island Hibiscus: Norfolk Island Green Parrot-Inasmuch: Green and ...
Image Adopted Remarks State flag: Flag of Western Australia: Flag of Western Australia: 1870 The swan faced was changed in 1953 to look towards the Union Jack in accordance with heraldic principles. State badge: State badge of Western Australia State Badge of Western Australia: 27 November 1875 The state badge was approved by the Colonial ...
The British colony in Western Australia was popularly known as the Swan River Colony from its foundation in 1829 until the beginning of the convict era in 1850. The black swan is the official bird emblem of Western Australia, although only formally adopted in 1973. It also appears on the state badge as a black swan silhouetted against a yellow ...
Geological Society of Australia ESHG Newsletter 41: 43 p. Finlayson DM. 2008. A geological guide to Canberra Region and Namadgi National Park. Geological Society of Australia (ACT Division), 139 p. Geological Survey of Western Australia, 1990. Geology and Mineral Resources of Western Australia. Memoir 3. McKenzie et al. (ed) 2004.
Basic geological regions of Australia, by age. The large brown region in the lower left of the continent constitutes the Yilgarn Craton. The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton that constitutes a major part of the Western Australian land mass. It is bounded by a mixture of sedimentary basins and Proterozoic fold and thrust belts.
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 flag of Western Australia has an aspect ratio of 1:2. [A] [8] The official colour scheme, according to the website of the Government of Western Australia, follows the Pantone Matching System as indicated below. The colour numbers for the flag's black and white shades are not specified. [8]
Western Australia is Australia’s largest state, with a land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi), [5] and is also the second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth, surpassed only by the Sakha Republic in eastern Russia, and formerly Northwest Territories in Canada, before the creation of Nunavut. It is also the largest ...