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).
... Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk[?] (pop. 171,000). A little coal is mined and some rye, wheat, oats, barley and vegetables are grown, although the period during which vegetation can grow ...