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Nambung National Park is a national park in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 200 km northwest of Perth, Australia and 17 km south of the small coastal town of Cervantes. [3] The park contains the Pinnacles Desert which is an area with thousands of limestone formations called pinnacles. [4]
The Little Sandy Desert connects to the Great Sandy Desert and is similar in terms of landscape and vegetation. The Western Desert , which describes a cultural region of Australia's indigenous people, includes the Gibson, Great Victoria, Great Sandy and Little Sandy deserts in the states of Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.
The Pinnacles Desert Discovery Centre was opened in 2008, offering interpretive displays of the park, both the natural processes that formed the Pinnacles and the biodiversity of the area. [ 7 ] The best season to visit the Pinnacles is in the months of August to October, as the days are mild and wildflowers, along with wattle , begin to bloom ...
Kiwirrkurra, gazetted as Kiwirrkurra Community, is a small community in Western Australia in the Gibson Desert, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) east of Port Hedland and 700 kilometres (430 mi) west of Alice Springs. [4] It had a population of 165 in 2016, mostly Aboriginal Australians. [5] It has been described as the most remote community in ...
Network Ten Perth. (Callsign: NEW – Channel 11 Digital) Perth formerly had West TV, a free-to-air community television channel that began broadcasting in April 2010 and ceased broadcasting in February 2020. It replaced Access 31, which ceased broadcasting in August 2008. Regional WA has a similar availability of stations as Perth.
It is the second largest desert in Australia after the Great Victoria Desert and encompasses an area of 284,993 square kilometres (110,036 sq mi). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Gibson Desert lies to the south and the Tanami Desert lies to the east of the Great Sandy Desert.
The Gibson Desert is a large desert in Western Australia, largely in an almost pristine state. It is about 155,000 square kilometres (60,000 sq mi) in size, making it the fifth largest desert in Australia, after the Great Victoria, Great Sandy, Tanami and Simpson deserts. The Gibson Desert is both an interim Australian bioregion and desert ...
The closest town is Laverton 560 kilometres (350 mi) south west along the Great Central Road. Warburton is situated on the Elder Creek. [9] [full citation needed] The area around Warburton continues to be of interest for mining exploration, predominantly for copper and nickel, but also uranium and gold.