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The western Pilbara is part of the Pilbara freshwater ecoregion, also known as the Pilbara-Gascoyne or Indian Ocean drainage basin. The freshwater region is characterized by intermittent rivers which form deep gorges, and brackish-water caves that host endemic species.
The Pilbara freshwater ecoregion is a freshwater ecoregion in Australia. It includes several river basins in semi-arid northwestern Western Australia . Geography
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.
The Pilbara shrublands is bounded on the north by the Indian Ocean, and on the west, south, and east by other deserts and xeric shrubland ecoregions - the Carnarvon xeric shrublands to the west, the Western Australian mulga shrublands to the south, and the Great Sandy-Tanami desert to the east and northeast.
Basin size: 66,850 square kilometres (25,811 sq mi) ... The Ashburton River is located within the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Geography
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.
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 North West, North West Coast, North Western Australia and North West Australia, are usually informal names for the northern regions of the State of Western Australia. However, some conceptions of "North West Australia" have included adjoining parts of the Northern Territory (NT) – or even the entire NT (see below).