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Located in the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park in Western Australia, Cape Leeuwin is a locality where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet. The nearest town, Augusta, is just a few kilometres away

The cape surrounded buy scubby rocky hills features a lighthouse that opened in 1895, and is the tallest on mainland Australia.

The Wardandi Aboriginals were the first peoples in the area. They called it "Doogalup". The English navigator Matthew Flinders named Cape Leeuwin after the first known ship to have visited the area, the Leeuwin ("Lioness"), a Dutch vessel that charted some of the nearby coastline in 1622.

• Population: 0 1
• Postcode: 6290
• Location: 325 km south of Perth
• Main Roads: None
• Radio Stations: FM: 2oceans FM (97.1 MHz), ABC RN (99.1 MHz), ABC Southwest (98.3 MHz), Hit 95.7 (95.7 MHz). AM: ABC News on Radio (1152 kHz), ABC Radio Perth (720 kHz), SEN Spirit (621 kHz) and Triple M (963 kHz)

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	Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse: View of Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse from the east, April 2009. Image © Paul Rands
	Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse: View of Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse from the north, April 2009. Image © Paul Rands
	Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse: View of Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse from the west, April 2009. Image © Paul Rands
	Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse: View of Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse from the northwest, April 2009. Image © Paul Rands
	Waterwheel: Historic waterwheel used to supply the nearby Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse keepers with water, April 2009. The wheel has become encrusted with a coating of limestone and is now frozen in rock. Water from the spring has a high calcium content. Image © Paul Rands
	Waterwheel: Historic waterwheel used to supply the nearby Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse keepers with water, April 2009. The wheel has become encrusted with a coating of limestone and is now frozen in rock. Water from the spring has a high calcium content. Image © Paul Rands
	Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park: View of Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park towards the Southern Ocean, April 2009. Image © Paul Rands
	Southern Ocean: View of the Southern Ocean from Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park at Cape Leeuwin, April 2009. Image © Paul Rands
	Indian Ocean: View of the Indian Ocean from below the waterwheel, April 2009. Image © Paul Rands
	Indian Ocean: View of the Indian Ocean from below the waterwheel, April 2009. Image © Paul Rands

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Quickstats 2016, Leeuwin (SSC)

Last updated: 22-Aug-2020 2:01

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