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Flinders Bay is a bay that is immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River.

The bay lies to the north east of Cape Leeuwin which is the most south-westerly mainland point of the Australian Continent, in the state of Western Australia.

Plaque at Point Matthew lookout on road to Cape Leeuwin

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Flinders Bay

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Flinders Bay is a bay that is immediately south of the townsite of Augusta, and close to the mouth of the Blackwood River. The bay lies to the north east...

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Matthew Flinders

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Britain in 1803, Flinders was arrested by the French governor at Isle de France (Mauritius). Although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the...

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Flinders Bay Branch Railway

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The Flinders Bay Branch Railway, also known as the Boyanup to Flinders Bay Section ran between Boyanup and Flinders Bay, in South Western Western Australia...

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Cape Leeuwin

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Matthew Flinders began his survey of the South coast of New Holland from Cape Leeuwin in 1801 when he named it. Flinders landed in the bay to the east...

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Flinders

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Look up Flinders or flinders in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flinders may refer to: Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula Flinders...

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Geographe Bay

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to Flinders Bay. The north west part of the bay is the location of a number of surf breaks. The environment of the drainage systems into the bay, and...

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False killer whale

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1935, and 1936. The 30 July 1986 mass stranding of 114 false killers in Flinders Bay, Western Australia was widely watched as volunteers and the newly created...

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Abalone

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States. After trials in 2012, a commercial "sea ranch" was set up in Flinders Bay, Western Australia to raise abalone. The ranch is based on an artificial...

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Anxious Bay

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named by Matthew Flinders on 21 February 1802. It is one of four ‘historic bays’ located on the South Australian coast. Anxious Bay lies between Cape...

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Flinders Street railway station

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Flinders Street railway station is a train station located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the...

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Mariculture

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shellfish. After trials in 2012, a commercial "sea ranch" was set up in Flinders Bay, Western Australia to raise abalone. The ranch is based on an artificial...

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Aquaculture

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programs. After trials in 2012, a commercial "sea ranch" was set up in Flinders Bay, Western Australia, to raise abalone. The ranch is based on an artificial...

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St Alouarn Islands

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Leeuwin in Western Australia, approximately 11 km south of Augusta in Flinders Bay. In March 1772, the crew of the French naval vessel Le Gros Ventre, commanded...

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Eucalyptus marginata

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Augusta - Margaret River region of the southwest, and ports at Hamelin Bay and Flinders Bay. The local poet Dryblower Murphy wrote a poem, "Comeanavajarrah"...

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Busselton

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Busselton area. In about 1927, the Flinders Bay Branch Railway was developed, which connected Busselton to Flinders Bay; it was closed around 1957. In the...

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Whaling in Western Australia

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the north–south coastline, stopping in bays such as Geographe Bay (east of Cape Naturaliste) and Flinders Bay (east of Cape Leeuwin) for mating and breeding...

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Western Australian Government Railway lines and operations centres

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Katanning Wonnerup - Nannup Picton Junction - Northcliffe Boyanup Junction - Flinders Bay Spencers Brook - Albany York - Bruce Rock Brookton - Corrigin Narrogin...

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Zostera polychlamys

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of South Australia and Western Australia. It was first discovered at Flinders Bay in Western Australia in 1990. Short, F.T.; Waycott, M. (2010). "Zostera...

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Lucky Bay

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of Matthew Flinders. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin. p. 185. ISBN 1-74114-152-4. Flinders, Matthew (1814). A Voyage to Terra Australis. Lucky Bay crowned Australia’s...

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Flinders Chase National Park

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Flinders Chase National Park (formerly Flinders Chase) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located at the west end of Kangaroo...

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Cetacean stranding

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for mass beaching hot spots such as Ocean Beach, Tasmania and Geographe Bay, Western Australia where the slope is about half a degree (approximately...

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Coffin Bay

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Bay.[citation needed] Coffin Bay is in the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula local government area, the state electoral district of Flinders and...

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Wardandi

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guided archaeological researchers to a spot on a granite outcrop near Flinders Bay in Augusta which was excavated and reported on in 2021, revealing grooves...

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County of Flinders

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of Louth Bay” on the Peninsula’s east coast. The county was enlarged to its present extent in 1872. It was named by Grey after Matthew Flinders, the British...

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Tasmanian languages

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a lingua franca was necessary for communication after resettlement on Flinders' Island. J.B. Walker, who visited the island in 1832 and 1834, reported:...

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