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Western Australia has the longest coastline of any state or territory in Australia, at 10,194 km [1] or 12,889 km (20,781 km including islands). [2] [a] It is a significant portion of the coastline of Australia, which is 35,877 km (59,736 km including islands).
Perth's metropolitan area extends along the coast to Two Rocks in the north and Singleton to the south, [70] a distance of approximately 125 kilometres (80 mi). [71] From the coast in the west to Mundaring in the east is a distance of approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi).
Perth, Western Australia hosts a variety of unique and biologically diverse habitats found nowhere else on Earth. [1] Many of these habitats include islands. Islands provide habitat and safe refuge for endangered native fauna as they are free of invasive species and the pressures of human development.
Perth, W.A. : Dept. of Commerce and Trade. Issue 1 (Mar./June 1998)-issue 11 (February 2002) Regional futures: challenges and opportunities for Western Australia's regions: a discussion paper prepared by the Regional Development Council and the Department of Commerce and Trade. Perth, W.A. : The Council, Rev. June 1996.
Sunset at Sunset Coast. Sunset Coast is the name given to the coastal section of the northern metropolitan area of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. [1] While the name is not in extensive use locally, with its many white sand beaches Sunset Coast has been a centrepiece of Western Australian tourism planning since the 1990s and is used in interstate and overseas marketing of the region.
Southwards along the coast are the Southwest Australia savanna and the Swan Coastal Plain around Perth, with the jarrah-karri forest and shrublands on the southwest corner of the coast around the Margaret River wine-growing area.
Esperance is a town [2] in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, on the Southern Ocean coastline approximately 720 kilometres (450 mi) east-southeast of the state capital, Perth and 391 kilometres (243 mi) south of Kalgoorlie.
Bunbury (Nyungar: Goomburrup) [3] is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, approximately 175 kilometres (109 mi) south of the state capital, Perth.It is the state's third most populous city after Perth and Mandurah, with a population of approximately 75,000.