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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. The urban population of Esperance was 12,003 at June 2018. [1]
The island located 15 kilometres (9 mi) from the town of Esperance, Western Australia. The island is part of the Recherche Archipelago and is listed as a nature reserve . [ 2 ] The island itself is reasonably small in size, about 1.5 km (0.93 mi) in length with a total area of 240 hectares (593 acres).
The Shire of Esperance stretches over the traditional land of a number of indigenous people, the Wudjari and Njunga people, both of the Noongar nation, in the south and west, the Kalaako people, who are also referred to as the Malba or Malpa, in the north-west, and the Ngadjumaya people in the east. Howick, located in its south-east of the ...
Originally selected as a siding on the Norseman to Esperance railway in 1916, Red Lake was gazetted as a townsite in 1922. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] An official 1922 map of the townsite shows the town west of the telegraph line and consisted of the north-south running Stephenson and Duke Streets and the east-west running Taylor Street, with 32 blocks of land ...
Lucky Bay. Lucky Bay is a bay located at 1] on the south coast of Western Australia, in the Cape Le Grand National Park Located southeast of Esperance, the bay is a tourist spot known for its bright white sands and turquoise-coloured waters.
Beaumont is a rural locality of the Shire of Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The locality is home to six nature reserves. Mount Beaumont, with a height of 276 metres (906 ft), is located in the north-west of Beaumont, just outside the Beaumont Nature Reserve. [2] [3]
A railway line from Coolgardie to Esperance that was completed in 1927 led to development of farming in the mallee country to the north of Esperance. [4] On 11 July 1979, the American Skylab Space Station re-entered Earth's atmosphere headed for Western Australia and the Indian Ocean. It broke up during reentry and much of it landed in Esperance.
The Goldfields–Esperance region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is located in the south-eastern corner of Western Australia , and comprises the local government areas of Coolgardie , Dundas , Esperance , Kalgoorlie–Boulder , Laverton , Leonora , Menzies , Ngaanyatjarraku and Wiluna .