Coastline of Western Australia

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Chapters: West Cape Howe National Park, William Bay National Park, King George Sound, Shipwrecks of Western Australia, Fremantle Harbour, Coastal regions of Western Australia, Tryal Rocks, Eighty Mile Beach, Cottesloe, Western Australia, Dawesville Channel, Ningaloo Reef, Wilson Inlet, Hartog Plate, Roebuck Bay, Cape Riche, Western Australia, Cape Leeuwin, Cape Peron, Leschenault Estuary, Busselton Jetty, Fremantle Doctor, Monkey Mia, Peel-Harvey Estuary, Culham Inlet, Point Cloates, Woodman Point, Green Island, Vasse-Wonnerup Estuary, Stokes Inlet, Gull Rock National Park, Kuri Bay, Buccaneer Archipelago, Cambridge Gulf, South Coast Western Australia, Cape Naturaliste, Flinders Bay, Hardy Inlet, Yampi Sound, King Sound, Taylor Inlet, Irwin Inlet, Broke Inlet, Cape Preston, Ocean Beach, Tamala limestone, Dampier Peninsula, Cape Freycinet, Cape Leveque, Beaufort Inlet, Mount Gabi, Rottnest Channel Swim, Exmouth Gulf, Success Bank, York Sound, Shelter Island, Zuytdorp Cliffs, Point Culver, Gage Roads, Nornalup Inlet, Limeburner Point, Steep Point, Flying Foam Passage, North West Cape, Elephant Rocks, Greens Pool, Marmion Marine Park, Cockburn Sound, Oyster Harbour, Western Australia, Calgardup Bay, Walcott Inlet, Mangles Bay, Champion Bay, Floreat Beach, Naturaliste Plateau, Geelvink Channel, East Island Lighthouse, Big Breaker, Coral Coast, Rossiter Bay, Crawford Bay, Toolinna Cove, Lacepede Channel. Excerpt: King George Sound is the name of a sound on the south coast of Western Australia. Located at , it is the site of the city of Albany. The sound covers an area of 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi) and varies in depth from 10 m (33 ft) to 35 m (115 ft). The sound is bordered by the mainland to the north, by Vancouver Peninsula on the west, and by Bald Head and Flinders Peninsula to the south. Although the sound is open water to the east, the waters are partially protected by Breaksea Island and Michaelmas Island. There are two harbours located within the sound, Princess Royal Harbour and Oyster Harbour. Each receive excellent protection from winds and heavy seas. Princess Royal Harbour was Western Australia's only deep-water port for around 70 years until Fremantle Harbour, south of Perth was opened. King George Sound from Mount Clarence Phillip Parker King's 1818 sketch of Oyster Harbour Pencil and wash of King George Soundby William Westall in 1801 Whalers Beach looking out into King George Sound toward Michaelmas island taken from Vancouver PeninsulaThe first reported sighting of King George Sound by a European was in 1791 by the English explorer George Vancouver, Vancouver named it after the reigning monarch, King George III. The next Europeans to visit the Sound were whalers Capt. Dennis of The Kingston, and Captain Dickson aboard The Elligood who caught three whales in August 1800. This expedition left an inscribed piece of metal behind to be found by Flinders crew in the following year. Matthew Flinders anchored in the Sound for about a month in 1801, during this time Brown (ship's botanist) and Good (ship's gardener) collected samples of over 500 plant species. Nicolas Baudin arrived in the sound in February 1803 aboard Le Geographe to rendezvous with Louis de Freycinet aboard the Casuarina before doing further exploration of the West Australian coastline. During the course of their stay the ship's naturalist, Francois Peron, collected 1060 new species of shellf