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).
... on May 24, 1864. On May 10, 1873, at his request, he was permitted to travel to Molokai to help the lepers who had virtually nothing to keep them warm or fed. After ...