Windabout, Western Australia
| Windabout Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Windabout | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 33°49′14″S 121°54′28″E / 33.82064°S 121.90777°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 124 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 6450 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 4 km2 (1.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Shire of Esperance | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Roe | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | O'Connor | ||||||||||||||
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Windabout is a suburb of Esperance and a locality of the Shire of Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The suburb is residential in the south-east, while the west is taken up by Esperance golf course and the north by parts of the Woody Lake Nature Reserve.[2][3]
The traditional lands of the Wudjari and Njunga people, both of the Noongar nation, occupy most of the Shire of Esperance, including the area around Esperance. The eastern tribes of the Wudjari, the Njunga, are seen as a separate people for cultural reasons, having adopted different cultural practices. The Young River, in the west of the shire, forms the boundary between the two groups and Esperance and the suburb of Windabout are on the traditional land of the latter.[4][5][6]
Lake Windabout lays to the north of the locality, in the nature reserve, while there is also a Windabout Lake in South Australia.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Windabout (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "SLIP Map". maps.slip.wa.gov.au. Landgate. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ a b "NationalMap". nationalmap.gov.au. Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Wudjari (WA)". samuseum.sa.gov.au. South Australian Museum. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Njunga (WA)". samuseum.sa.gov.au. South Australian Museum. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Map of Indigenous Australia". aiatsis.gov.au. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
