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Cape Peron

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Cape Peron is a headland at Rockingham, at the southern end of Cockburn Sound in Western Australia. [1]

34 relations: Acacia sensu lato, Asbestos, Australia, Australian Army Reserve, Boom (navigational barrier), Cockburn Sound, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia, François Péron, Frankenia pauciflora, Garden Island (Western Australia), Halotolerance, Headlands and bays, HMAS Stirling, Lake Richmond, LandCorp, Lepidosperma gladiatum, Little penguin, Natural history, Nicolas Baudin, Olearia solandri, Peron, Western Australia, Perth, RMS Orizaba, Rockingham, Western Australia, Rottnest Island, Seagrass, Spinifex (genus), Swanbourne, Western Australia, The West Australian, WAtoday, Western Australia, World War II, Zoology.

Acacia sensu lato

Acacia s.l., known commonly as mimosa, acacia, thorntree or wattle, is a polyphyletic genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Army Reserve

The Australian Army Reserve is a collective name given to the reserve units of the Australian Army.

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Boom (navigational barrier)

A boom or a chain (also boom defence, harbour chain, river chain, chain boom, boom chain or variants) is an obstacle strung across a navigable stretch of water to control or block navigation.

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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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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places.

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Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia

The Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia (EPA) is a statutory authority within the Government of Western Australia and is the primary provider of independent environmental advice to the government.

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François Péron

François Auguste Péron (22 August 1775 – 14 December 1810) was a French naturalist and explorer.

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Frankenia pauciflora

Frankenia pauciflora, the common sea-heath or southern sea-heath, is a shrub in the Frankeniaceae family, native to southern Australia.

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Garden Island (Western Australia)

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.

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Halotolerance

Halotolerance is the adaptation of living organisms to conditions of high salinity.

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Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related coastal features.

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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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Lake Richmond

Lake Richmond is a freshwater lake in Rockingham, Western Australia.

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LandCorp

LandCorp is an agency of the Government of Western Australia.

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Lepidosperma gladiatum

Lepidosperma gladiatum is commonly known as the coast sword-sedge or coastal sword-sedge.

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Little penguin

The little penguin (Eudyptula minor) is the smallest species of penguin.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas Thomas Baudin (17 February 1754 – 16 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.

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Olearia solandri

Olearia solandri, commonly known as coastal daisy-bush or coastal tree daisy, is a coastal shrub of New Zealand.

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Peron, Western Australia

Peron is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located within the City of Rockingham.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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RMS Orizaba

RMS Orizaba was a mail steamer wrecked off Rockingham, Western Australia on 16 February 1905.

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Rockingham, Western Australia

Rockingham is a city and primary centre in Western Australia south-west of the Perth city centre and south of Fremantle.

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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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Seagrass

Seagrasses are flowering plants (angiosperms) belonging to four families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae), all in the order Alismatales (in the class of monocotyledons), which grow in marine, fully saline environments.

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Spinifex (genus)

Spinifex is a genus of perennial coastal plants in the grass family.

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Swanbourne, Western Australia

Swanbourne is a western coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, and is an affluent, upper middle class locale with older Federation style homes, many being renovated.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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WAtoday

WAtoday is an online newspaper, focusing its coverage on Perth and Western Australia.

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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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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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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Peron

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