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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.
Mount Augustus Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in Western Australia. 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.
Mount Augustus National Park: III: 9,163: 22 September 1989 ... Mount Frankland South National Park: II: 42,299: 8 December 2004 WAR Mount Lindesay National Park ...
The Gurney's encouraged the Lands Department to excise 10 square miles (26 km 2) surrounding Mount Augustus and this was eventually declared as a National Park. The property was sold again in 1980 to a Perth syndicate headed by Peter Eaton, who intended to develop a tourism venture at Cobra. [4]
Gascoyne Junction is now a centre for mining, pastoral and desert merino fine wool industries, and serves as a gateway to nearby attractions such as Mount Augustus National Park and Kennedy Range National Park. The town contains the Shire of Upper Gascoyne Council Office, the Junction Pub and Tourist Park, Gascoyne Junction Community Resource ...
The Valley of the Giants skywalk at Walpole-Nornalup National Park. Western Australia is the second largest country subdivision in the world.. As of 2022, based on the latest Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report, it contains 1857 separate land-based protected areas with a total area of 76,142,710 hectares (188,152,700 acres), accounting for just over 30 percent of the state ...
The races were first held in 1921 when stockmen from stations in the area such as Mount Augustus, Milgun, Mount Seabrook and Erravilla held a race on their day off to find who had the fastest horse. The races have been held almost continuously ever since, with races not being held for several years during World War II .