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).
... and built by a consortium of European nations formed in 1983.
The initial members were the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
In 1985 Franc ...