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Weano Gorge in Karijini National Park. The Pilbara consists of three distinct geographic areas. The western third is the Roebourne coastal sandplain, which supports most of the region's population in towns and much of its industry and commerce. The eastern third is almost entirely desert, and is sparsely populated by a small number of ...
The Hamersley Range is a mountainous region of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.The range was named on 12 June 1861 by explorer Francis Thomas Gregory after Edward Hamersley, a prominent promoter of his exploration expedition to the northwest.
Karijini National Park is an Australian national park centred in the Hamersley Ranges of the Pilbara region in the northwestern section of Western Australia. The park is located north of the Tropic of Capricorn, 1,055 kilometres (656 mi) from the state's capital city, Perth. Formerly known as Hamersley Range National Park, the park was ...
The Pilbara shrublands is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in Western Australia. ... forming the upper basin of the Fortescue River. ... Karijini National Park;
Lake Dora (Wanman: Ngayartakujarra) [3] is a seasonal salt lake located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It lies between the vegetated sand fields of the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts . The Rudall River occasionally flows into Lake Dora.
The western portion of the coast, from North West Cape to Cape Preston including Exmouth Gulf, is underlain by the sedimentary Carnarvon Basin formation. The eastern portion from Cape Preston to Cape Keraudren is near the northern margin of the Pilbara Craton, which is made up of Archaean metamorphic and igneous rocks. The Archean rocks outcrop ...
The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.It is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy and Tanami deserts in the region of the Pilbara, and on the east by the Northern Territory.
Billabong in Millstream Chichester National Park, in the Fortescue River watershed. The Pilbara freshwater ecoregion is a freshwater ecoregion in Australia. It includes several river basins in semi-arid northwestern Western Australia.