North West Australia

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A map showing the location of the Murchison River.

The official regions of Western Australia: the Kimberley is in red, the Pilbara in orange and the Gascoyne is an ochre/burnt sienna colour.

The terms North West Australia, The North West and North Western Australia have been used as a regular label for the region of the North of Western Australia

There are some variations

• north of latitude 26° south — a definition widely used in law and State government policy
• the official Kimberley, Pilbara and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia, or two or more of these.
• during the 19th century, the whole area north of the Murchison River was referred to as the North District, and during the 1860s it was officially administered by a Government Resident, Robert John Sholl, based in Roebourne.
• In the 1960's the Department of Industrial Development defined it as:-

The region is bounded in the west by the Indian Ocean, in the east by the Central Division, in the north-east by the Pilbara, and in the south by the Northern Agricultural Division. It covers and area of 75,731 square miles and has a population of about 10,000

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[edit] References

1. ^ Pamphlet titled The North Westproduced by the Department of Industrial Development with no publication date or details.

[edit] See also

• Regions of Western Australia
• Northern Australia
• Central Australia
• Southern Australia

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