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Garden Island (Western Australia)

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Garden Island is a slender island about long and wide, lying about off the Western Australian coast, to which it is now linked by a man-made causeway. [1]

32 relations: BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X, Carnac Island, Clearance Diving Branch (RAN), Cockburn Sound, Dreamtime, Folding kayak, France, Fremantle, Fremantle Harbour, HMAS Stirling, Indigenous Australians, Isle of Wight, James Stirling (Royal Navy officer), Last glacial period, List of islands of Perth, Western Australia, Motorised Submersible Canoe, Netherlands, Noongar, Paris, Portsmouth, Rottnest Island, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Navy Submarine Service, Services Reconnaissance Department, Tammar wallaby, Welfreighter, Welman submarine, Western Australia, Willem de Vlamingh, World War I, World War II, Z Special Unit.

BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X

The BL 9.2 inch guns Mk IX and Mk XMk IX.

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Carnac Island

Carnac Island is a, A Class, island nature reserve about south-west of Fremantle in Western Australia.

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Clearance Diving Branch (RAN)

The Clearance Diving Branch is the diving unit of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) whose versatile role covers all spheres of military diving, and includes explosive ordnance disposal and maritime counter-terrorism.

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Cockburn Sound

Cockburn Sound is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Western Australia.

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Dreamtime

Dreamtime (also dream time, dream-time) is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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Folding kayak

A folding kayak is a direct descendant of the original Inuit kayak made of animal skins stretched over frames made from wood and bones.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fremantle

Fremantle is a major Australian port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River.

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Fremantle Harbour

Fremantle Harbour is Western Australia's largest and busiest general cargo port and an important historical site.

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HMAS Stirling

HMAS Stirling is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base that is part of fleet Base West situated on the west coast of Australia.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.

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James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir James Stirling (28 January 179122 April 1865) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator.

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Last glacial period

The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.

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List of islands of Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia hosts a variety of unique and biologically diverse habitats found nowhere else on Earth.

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Motorised Submersible Canoe

The Motorised Submersible Canoe (MSC), nicknamed Sleeping Beauty, was built by British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II as an underwater vehicle for a single frogman to perform clandestine reconnaissance or attacks against enemy vessels.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Noongar

The Noongar (also spelt Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, Yunga) are a constellation of peoples of Indigenous Australian descent who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.

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Rottnest Island

Rottnest Island (known as Wadjemup to the local Noongar people, and otherwise colloquially known as Rotto) is an island off the coast of Western Australia, located west of Fremantle.

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Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force.

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Royal Australian Navy Submarine Service

The Royal Australian Navy Submarine Service is the collective name of the submarine element of the Royal Australian Navy.

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Services Reconnaissance Department

The Special Operations Australia (SOA), previously known as the Inter-Allied Services Department (ISD) and later given the cover name of the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD), was an Australian military intelligence and special reconnaissance unit, during World War II.

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Tammar wallaby

The tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), also known as the dama wallaby or darma wallaby, is a small macropod native to South and Western Australia.

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Welfreighter

The Welfreighter was a Second World War British midget submarine developed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of landing and supplying agents behind enemy lines.

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Welman submarine

The Welman submarine was a Second World War one-man British midget submarine developed by the Special Operations Executive.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Willem de Vlamingh

Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh (bapt. 28 November 1640 – 1698 or later) was a Dutch sea-captain who explored the central west coast of Australia (then "New Holland") in the late 17th century.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Z Special Unit

Z Special Unit—also known as Special Operations Executive (SOE), Special Operations Australia (SOA) or the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD)—was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Island_(Western_Australia)

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