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Top 10 Natural Wonders

Western Australia is full of many amazing and inspirational areas like no other in the world. The vast difference between areas means that a totally different experience can be had anywhere throughout our beautiful State.

Couple over looking the stomatolites at Hamelin Pool
Shark Bay World Heritage Area

Dugongs and dolphins abound in this thriving world heritage-listed site, which is also home to an abundance of stromatolites - the oldest form of life on Earth.


Ningaloo Reef

Emerald lagoons teem with brilliant coral and vibrant tropical fish on this magnificent coastline. A 260 kilometre spectacle of colour and diversity, it is the largest fringing coral reef in Australia.


Mount Augustus

At eight kilometres long and around 1,105 metres above sea level, Mount Augustus is the largest monolith in the world. This colossal beauty, which changes colour in the sun, is 2.5 times larger than Uluru.


Jewel Cave

This spectacular 1.9 kilometre cave houses a mammoth 580 centimetres straw stalactite - the longest in any tourist cave in the state.


The PinnaclesThe Pinnacles

In the mystical Pinnacles Desert, thousands of limestone pillars - believed to be at least 6,000 years old - rise up to 3.5 metres tall from the shifting yellow sands.


Karijini National Park

With soaring red gorges and colossal waterfalls, this spectacular ancient landscape is home to bats, rock wallabies, red kangaroos, echidnas, dragons and huge termite moulds.


Purnululu National Park

This is where you'll find the awesome Bungle-Bungle range. These towering mounds with orange and black horizontal stripes are one of the most spectacular landforms on earth - and were 20 million years in the making.


Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve

One of only a few biospheres in the world, this picturesque bushland is teeming with more than 1,800 flowering plants and 19 native mammals.


Horizontal WaterfallWolfe Creek Crater

The second largest meteorite crater (880 metres) in the world. The meteorite is believed to have crashed to Earth around 300,000 years ago weighing more than 50,000 tonnes.


Horizontal Waterfalls

At the rare and magnificent horizontal waterfall in the Buccaneer Archipelago, see turquoise blue water rushing between rugged red hills. This wonder is best viewed from the air.

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