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Mount Augustus. Mount Augustus is located roughly 1,000 km north of Perth, in the Mount Augustus National Park in Western Australia. The name is also given to the neighbouring pastoral lease, Mount Augustus Station. The local Wadjari people call it Burringurrah, after a Dreamtime figure, a young boy who was speared and turned into a rock. [1]
Mount Augustus National Park is located 852 km north of Perth, 490 km by road east of Carnarvon and 390 km northwest of Meekatharra, in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Mount Augustus itself, the feature around which the national park is based, is known as Burringurrah to the local Wadjari Aboriginal people.
Burringurrah (also referred to as Mt Augustus) is a medium-sized Aboriginal community, located in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Upper Gascoyne. In the 2011 census , Burringurrah had a total population of 117, including 102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. [ 1 ]
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Mount Augustus It is situated about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south west of Paraburdoo and 300 kilometres (186 mi) north west of Meekatharra in the Gascoyne region. The Upper Lyons River and Frederick River both run through the property, and the lease area once included Mount Augustus , which is claimed to be the largest monocline in the world.
The station is situated approximately 164 kilometres (102 mi) south west of Paraburdoo and 334 miles (538 km) north west of Meekatharra.The station is bordered by Mount Augustus National Park, Mount Augustus Station, Mount Phillip and Gilford Stations. [1]
Mount Augustus was a mountain on the West Coast of New Zealand. It was the locality for a type specimen of the Powelliphanta augusta species of carnivorous snails previously known as Powelliphanta "Augustus". The mountain, part of the Stockton mine, was removed to recover the underlying coal. [1]
In August 2010, Rod Morris reported in Forest and Bird on the status of P. augustus. Morris had visited the re-location site, just northwest of the original Mt. Augustus site, where the original soil and vegetation from Mt. Augustus had been transferred to.