Coastline of Western Australia

The Coastline of Western Australia is a significant portion of the coastline of Australia. The total length is 59,736 (mainland length 35,877 km (22,292 mi)), with the Western Australian coastline being 12,889 km and including islands 20,781 km.[1]

The earliest full charting of the coastline occurred during exploration in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.[2]

The coastline has some features or organisms that are found on the entire length,[3] while some others are specific to coastal regions.[4][5]

Due to its length, various government map posters have been created over time, that have examples of coastal form, or types of coast such as the 1984 map with photos.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/coastline-lengths.html Coastline lengths
  2. ↑ Freycinet, Louis de, 1779-1842 (1919), [Chart of Western Australian coastline], H.J. Pether, Govt. Lithographer, retrieved 10 July 2015
  3. ↑ Wells, Fred E; Western Australian Museum (1978), The distribution of shallow-water marine prosobranch gastropod molluscs along the coastline of Western Australia, retrieved 10 July 2015
  4. ↑ Bradshaw, Elizabeth (1995-12), "Dates from archaeological excavations on the Pilbara coastline and islands of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia", Australian Archaeology (41): 37–38, ISSN 0312-2417 Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ↑ Sircombe, K.N; Freeman, M.J (1999-10-01), "Provenance of detrital zircons on the Western Australia coastline - implications for the geologic history of the Perth basin and denudation of the Yilgarn craton.(Statistical Data Included)", Geology (Geological Society of America, Inc) 27 (10): 879(4), doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0879:podzot>2.3.co;2, ISSN 0091-7613
  6. ↑ Chape, Stuart; Hesp, P. A. (Patrick Alan); Western Australia. Coastal Management Co-ordinating Committee; Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture; Western Australia. Dept. of Conservation and Environment (1984), Western Australian coastline, Coastal Management Coordinating Committee, retrieved 10 July 2015


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