ROTTNEST ISLAND, 6161, WA
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Rottnest Island Nearby Points & Places of Interest
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Geographical features of Rottnest Island •
Description: Rottnest Island lies 18 kilometres west of the coastline of Perth, Western Australia, and is 4.5 km (2.8m) at its widest, and 11 km long. (...)
Elevation: 10ft • Distance: 0.7km
Rottnest Island • [
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Description: Rottnest Island is located 18 kilometres (11 mi) off the Western Australian coast, near Fremantle. It is called Wadjemup by the Noongar people, meaning "place across the water". The island is 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) long, and 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) at its widest point (...)
Elevation: 10ft • Distance: 0.7km
Description: The Swan River Colony was a British settlement established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. The name was a pars pro toto for Western Australia. In 1832, the colony was officially renamed Western Australia, when the colony's founding Lieutenant-Governor, Captain James Stirling, (...)
Elevation: 16ft • Distance: 0.8km
Lake Baghdad • [
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Description: Lake Baghdad is one of a collection of salt lakes on Rottnest Island, Western Australia. (...)
Elevation: 10ft • Distance: 0.9km
Rottnest Island shipwrecks • [
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Description: Since the first Europeans visited the west coast of Australia in the 17th century, Rottnest Island has seen numerous shipwrecks. The 11 kilometre long and 4.5 km wide island is surrounded by hidden and partly exposed reefs whilst being buffeted by the Roaring Forties (...)
Elevation: 10ft • Distance: 0.9km
Wadjemup Lighthouse • [
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Description: Completed in 1849, the original Wadjemup Lighthouse (also known as Rottnest Island Light Station) was Western Australia's first stone lighthouse and was built to provide a safer sailing passage for ships to Fremantle Port and the Swan River Colony (...)
Elevation: 43ft • Distance: 0.9km
Rottnest Island Airport • [
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Description: Rottnest Island Airport is a small airport for light aircraft, situated about from the main settlement at Thomson Bay, Rottnest Island and northwest of Fremantle. Daily air services operate to the island. In the past these have been from Perth Airport, but in recent years have been mainly from (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 2.4km
City of York (barque) • [
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Description: The City of York was a 1,194 ton iron barque which sunk after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island in the last few kilometres of its voyage from San Francisco to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1899. The three masted, 68 metre (223 feet) long, iron hulled ship was built in 1869 by Glasgow shipbuilders (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 2.9km
The Basin (Rottnest Island) •
Description: The Basin is a popular swimming location on Rottnest Island, Western Australia. It is located at , in the northwest of the island, between Pinky Beach and Longreach Bay. According to the website of Tourism Western Australia, it has been awarded "Australia's Top Beach". John T (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 2.9km
Bathurst Lighthouse • [
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Description: Bathurst Lighthouse is one of two lighthouses on Rottnest Island, the other being Wadjemup Lighthouse. It is located on Bathurst Point, in the north east of the island, and was activated in 1900. The lighthouse was erected in response to a series of shipping disasters in the area, which included the (...)
Elevation: 9ft • Distance: 3.2km
Lady Elizabeth (1869) • [
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Description: The Lady Elizabeth was a British ship built in 1869 by Robert Thompson Jr. of Sunderland. Robert Thompson Jr. was one of the sons of Robert Thompson Sr. who owned and operated the family ran shipyard J. L. Thompson & Sons. Thompson Jr (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 3.4km
