Places to visit in Western Australia, Australia
17 places to visit in Western Australia, Australia, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Fremantle Prison, Ningaloo Reef, Purnululu National Park and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Western Australia volume.
4 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 3 Famous places to visit · 10 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Western Australia (4)
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Fremantle Prison
A walled limestone prison built by convicts transported from Britain, now one of the World Heritage listed Australian Convict Sites. Tours lead through the cellblocks, gatehouse and warders' cottages, and down into tunnels dug beneath the site.
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Ningaloo Reef
Australia's largest fringing coral reef, running 260 kilometres along the north-west coast and lying so close to land that you can swim out to it from the beach. Whale sharks gather here each year, and the coast is a World Heritage Site about 1,200 kilometres north of Perth.
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Purnululu National Park
A remote World Heritage park in the East Kimberley, about 300 kilometres south of Kununurra. It holds the Bungle Bungle Range, beehive-shaped domes of sandstone banded in orange and black that rise 250 metres above the savannah.
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Shark Bay
A World Heritage Site of 23,000 square kilometres on the westernmost point of the Australian continent, around 800 kilometres north of Perth. Its shallow waters hold vast seagrass meadows, dugongs and the stromatolites of Hamelin Pool, among the oldest forms of life on Earth.
Famous places to visit in Western Australia (3)
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Lake Hillier
A salt lake on the edge of Middle Island in the Recherche Archipelago, off the south coast of Western Australia, famous for its pink colour. Only a thin strip of land separates it from the blue Southern Ocean, a contrast best seen from the air.
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Rottnest Island
A low, sandy island of 19 square kilometres, 18 kilometres off Fremantle, protected as an A-class reserve with no private cars. It is home to the quokka, a small marsupial that looks as if it is smiling, and its bays and reefs are mostly reached by bicycle.
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Wave Rock
A granite cliff about 15 metres high and 110 metres long, curved like an ocean wave about to break. It forms the north side of Hyden Rock, 3 kilometres from the small town of Hyden and nearly 300 kilometres east of Perth, its face streaked by water and minerals.
Hidden gems in Western Australia (10)
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Busselton Jetty
At 1,841 metres, the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere, running out into Geographe Bay. A little train carries visitors to the far end, where an underwater observatory looks out on the coral and fish living around the piles.
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Cable Beach
Twenty-two kilometres of white sand on the Indian Ocean at Broome, named after the telegraph cable laid from here to Java in 1889. Low red ochre cliffs rise behind the wide, flat beach, and camel trains walk the shore at sunset.
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Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse
A lighthouse on the headland at the most south-westerly point of mainland Australia, near Augusta, where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet. Built of local limestone in the 1890s, it is the tallest lighthouse on the Australian mainland.
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Cottesloe Beach
Perth's best-loved beach, known in Noongar as Mudurup, a train ride from the city and sheltered by offshore reefs that make swimming relatively safe. Its lawns, Norfolk Island pines and sunsets over the Indian Ocean have been recognised as a place of cultural significance since 2005.
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Elizabeth Quay
A waterfront precinct on the north shore of Perth Water in the city centre, named for Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year. It sits beside the Swan Bells tower, with a footbridge over the inlet, restaurants, and ferries leaving for South Perth.
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Karijini National Park
A national park in the Hamersley Range of the Pilbara, more than 1,000 kilometres north of Perth, known until 1991 as Hamersley Range National Park. Deep, narrow gorges of red banded rock hide waterfalls and pools such as Fern Pool and Fortescue Falls.
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Kings Park
A 400-hectare park on the rise above Perth Water, looking down over the river and the city's towers. Much of it is native bushland, alongside a botanic garden of Western Australian plants and a walkway of glass and steel through the treetops.
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Monkey Mia
A beach reserve on the shore of Shark Bay, 25 kilometres north-east of Denham, where wild bottlenose dolphins have come into the shallows to meet people for decades. Rangers lead a morning feeding at the water's edge, and the bay is also home to dugongs and turtles.
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Perth Zoo
A 17-hectare zoo in South Perth, opened in 1898, just across the river from the city centre. It holds animals from Australia, Asia and Africa, and the gardens planted around their enclosures are a botanical collection in their own right.
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The Pinnacles
Thousands of limestone pillars standing in yellow sand inside Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes north of Perth. Some stand taller than a person, and a loop drive and walking trails wind between them.
Collecting in Western Australia
What are the best places to visit in Western Australia?
LOQAH lists 17 places in Western Australia. The best known include Fremantle Prison, Ningaloo Reef, Purnululu National Park, Shark Bay and Lake Hillier. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Western Australia?
17, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Western Australia?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Western Australia before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Western Australia and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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