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The Best Attractions In Cockburn

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  • 2. The Basin Rottnest Island
    The Basin is a popular swimming location on Rottnest Island, Western Australia. It is located at 31°59′21″S 115°32′9″E, in the northwest of the island, between Pinky Beach and Longreach Bay. According to the website of Tourism Western Australia, it has been awarded Australia's Top Beach. John T. McMahon once wrote of it: I challenge the world to produce a better swimming place than the Basin. Nature has been eloquent here. Two jagged headlines guard the cove whose slopes are covered with white sand. Climb up the hill that separates us from Longreach Bay, and look down upon the unbelievable shades of green water in the Basin, curving around the reefs to meander in and out until it reaches a sandy beach, a delightful swim, an objective for the before-breakfast plunge... The Basin o...
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  • 3. Adventure World Perth Australia Bibra Lake
    Adventure World is a theme park in Perth, Western Australia. It is located in Bibra Lake, 20 km from the CBD. The park opened on 11 November 1982 as Adventureworld at Bibra Lakes and undergoes a winter closure each year. Adventure World was built on an old limestone quarry at Bibra Lake following the dream of an entertainment entrepreneur. It took 380,000 tonnes of sand to reshape the land contours to the initial landscape of the park before Adventureworld at Bibra Lakes” launched on 11th November 1982 telling the world “We built it for you to have the adventures of a lifetime in a single day, just for fun”. The Theme Park includes world-class attractions such as Goliath launched in 2017, the $12 million roller coaster “Abyss” launched in 2013, the $7 million dollar Kraken, the l...
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  • 5. Rottnest Island Salt Lakes Rottnest Island
    Rottnest Island is an island off the coast of Western Australia, located 18 kilometres west of Fremantle. A sandy, low-lying island formed on a base of aeolianite limestone, Rottnest is an A-class reserve, the highest level of protection afforded to public land. Together with Garden Island, Rottnest Island is a remnant of Pleistocene dune ridges.The island covers 19 square kilometres and is administered by the Rottnest Island Authority under a separate act of parliament. Rottnest is a popular holiday destination, and there are daily ferry services to Perth, the state's capital and largest city. It has a permanent population of around 300 people, with around 500000 annual visitors . On 28 April 2017 the government of Western Australia announced that the Department of Parks and Wildlife woul...
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  • 6. West End Rottnest Island
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most populous city in Australia, with a population of 2,022,044 living in Greater Perth. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with the majority of the metropolitan area located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The first areas settled were on the Swan River at Guildford, with the city's central business district and port both later founded downriver. Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It gained city status in 1856, and was promoted to the status of a Lord Mayorality in 1929. The city is named after Perth, Scotland, due to the influenc...
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  • 9. Coogee Beach Cockburn
    Coogee is a southern coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn.
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  • 13. City of York Bay Rottnest Island
    City of York was a 1,194 ton iron ship which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island in the last few kilometres of its voyage from San Francisco to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1899.The three masted, 68 metre long, iron hulled ship was built in 1869 by Glasgow shipbuilders J. Elder and Company. The British owners were the 'Ship City of York Company'. It had only just been beaten by the famous Cutty Sark in the 1885 Great Race, a race from China to London in which large profits were earned by the ship to arrive with the first tea of the year.
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  • 14. The Life Spring Float Tank Centre Cockburn
    King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London. King's was established in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington, when it received its first royal charter , and claims to be the fourth oldest university institution in England. In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology , the Institute of Psychiatry , the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery . King's has five campuses: its historic Strand...
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  • 15. Fremantle Prison Fremantle
    Fremantle Prison, sometimes referred to as Fremantle Gaol or Fremantle Jail, is a former Australian prison and World Heritage Site in Fremantle, Western Australia. The six-hectare site includes the prison cellblocks, gatehouse, perimeter walls, cottages, and tunnels. Initially used for convicts transported from Britain, but was transferred to the colonial government in 1886 for use for locally-sentenced prisoners. Royal Commissions were held in 1898 and 1911, and instigated some reform to the prison system, but significant changes did not begin until the 1960s. The government department in charge of the prison underwent several reorganisations in the 1970s and 1980s, but the culture of Fremantle Prison was resistant to change. Growing prisoner discontent culminated in a 1988 riot with guar...
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