Western Australia is the largest state in Australia. It contains no fewer than 1224 separate Protected Areas with a total area of 17,061,020 hectares (land area: 15,915,080 hectares – 6.30% of the state’s area). 63 of these are National parks, totalling 4,874,282 hectares (1.93% of the state’s area).
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Robert Falcon Scott, (1868-1912), reached the South Pole less than one month after Amundsen, but died on the return ...