Definition of western australia Western australia
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| western australia - a state containing the western third of Australia | ||
| commonwealth of australia, australia a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony | ||
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Western Australia is one of the six states of Australia. It is the biggest state in Australia measured by amount of land. It has a population of about two million people. Its capital city is Perth.
Before 1900.
It was first discovered in the 1600s when big Dutch ships trying to sail to Indonesia from Europe crashed off the west coast. Other ships went looking for them and drew maps of the coast. They did not think anything would grow on the land, so they moved on and did not come back.
In the 1800s, the French and the British were fighting a war. The British had just settled in New South Wales in eastern Australia. The French sailed around Western Australia, drew more maps of it and named things they saw after themselves and their boats.
In 1826 the first settlement of people from Europe was started in Albany, by Edmund Lockyer an English major.
In 1827, a Captain in the British army, James Stirling, sailed up the Swan River and liked what he saw. He told the British government, and in 1829, Britain sent settlers to Western Australia and made James Stirling the governor. They started up the towns of Fremantle and Perth.
They gave land to everyone who came to Western Australia very cheaply. However a lot of the land was not good for growing things, and Stirling sent men all over the state to find better land. After walking for hundreds of kilometres, they told Stirling which places were good, and some people left Perth and went to those places.
The part of Western Australia so
