Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Cane River is a river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.With its headwaters rising west of the Hamersley Range, the river flows in a north-westerly direction through the Cane River Conservation Park and over the Onslow Coastal Plain, and eventually discharges into the Indian Ocean near Yardie Landing approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) north-east of Onslow.
At the time of the last two-yearly Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database report in 2022, 6,511,458 hectares (16,090,160 acres) of land in Western Australia was covered by national park, which is 8.55 percent of all protected areas in the state. Overall, just over 30 percent of Western Australia is covered by protected areas. [2]
The Vasse Highway forms the western and south-western border of the locality. Most of the Greater Beedelup National Park is located within Beedelup. [2] [3] Beedelup is located on the traditional land of the Bibulman people of the Noongar nation. [4] [5] [6] The heritage listed Beedelup Falls are located within Beedelup and the Greater Beedelup ...
Millstream Chichester National Park is a national park in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, located 1,190 kilometres (739 mi) north of the state capital, Perth.. The park is made up of the old Millstream Station, which is on the Millstream Creek, just before it joins Fortescue River, one of the few permanent watercourses in the area and the Chichester Range.
Proclaimed an A Class Reserve on 13 April 1977, it is the largest national park in Western Australia. [2] The park was initially listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1978 as Rudall River National Park, and was noted as "significant for maintaining ongoing geomorphic and ecological processes within a tropical desert environment. It ...
The park was proposed in the Regional Forest Agreement for the South-West Forest Region of Western Australia (May 1999), and Western Australia's Forest Management Plan 2004-2013 as part of its strategy to better protect old-growth forests. It was created by the Reserves (National Parks, Conservation Parks, and Nature Reserves) Bill 2004, which ...
The Granite Hill Nature Reserve was gazetted on 3 June 1988, has a size of 1.27 square kilometres (0.49 sq mi), and is located within the Jarrah Forest bioregion. The parts west of the Kalgan River, the majority, are located within Napier, the remainder being in Palmdale.
Kennedy Range National Park is a national park in Gascoyne region of Western Australia, approximately 830 kilometres (520 mi) [2] north of Perth and about 150 km (93 mi) [3] east of Carnarvon. Kennedy Range is found on the edge of the Gascoyne River catchment area and is a weathered plateau that extends for a distance of 150 km (93 mi), [ 4 ...