Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Western Australia
Detourmap lists 167 places in Western Australia, Australia, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Purnululu National Park. 138 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 167
- Oldest
- Geffrard 1853
- Little known
- 138 of 167
- Share of Australia
- 19%
Western Australia 167
The 120 best known of 167. The other 47 are on the map and on the Australia pages.
-
1.Purnululu National Park
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
National park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
-
6.Lake Mackay
Nature · Notable
Ephemeral salt lake in Western Australia and Northern Territory, Australia
-
7.Batavia
Archaeological · Notable
Ship wrecked in 1629 on Houtman Abrolhos with at least 110 men, women and children being murdered during subsequent mutiny
-
13.Karijini National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
-
16.Steep Point
Nature · Notable
Headland in Western Australia and westernmost point of the Australian mainland
-
17.Fitzgerald River National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park in Western Australia
-
18.German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
Archaeological · Notable
Ship scuttled off the coast of Western Australia after battle with HMAS Sydney during the second World War
-
29.Eighty Mile Beach
Nature · 20th century · Notable
Beach on the north-west coast of Western Australia
-
40.Rowley Shoals
Nature · Hidden gem
Group of three atoll-like coral reefs in Indian Ocean off northwestern coast of Western Australia
-
43.Drysdale River National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Western Australia
-
45.Mitchell River National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Western Australia
-
46.Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Western Australia
-
52.Cape Leveque
Nature · Hidden gem
Cape in northernmost part of Dampier Peninsula in Western Australia
-
57.Telfer Mine
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Copper and gold mine located at Telfer, Western Australia
-
63.Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
Protected area in Shark Bay world heritage area in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia
-
65.Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Nature reserve in Western Australia
-
74.Christmas Creek mine
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
-
78.Wandoo National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Mount Observation, Western Australia
-
79.Montebello Islands Marine Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
Marine park in Western Australia
-
84.Ravensthorpe Mine
Archaeological · 21st century · Hidden gem
Nickel and cobalt mine in Western Australia
-
87.Sunrise Dam Gold Mine
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Gold mine 55 km south of Laverton, Western Australia
-
103.Gooseberry Hill National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Perth, Western Australia
-
104.Mount Lindesay National Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
National park in Western Australia
-
108.Shark Bay Marine Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Marine park in Western Australia, Australia
-
109.Bremer Marine Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
Marine protected area off the south coast of Western Australia
-
110.Shoalwater Islands Marine Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
Protected area on the coast of Perth Western Australia
-
116.Gloucester Tree
Nature · Hidden gem
Giant karri tree in Gloucester National Park, Western Australia
Elsewhere in Australia
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Western Australia?
Purnululu National Park, 20th century. National park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Western Australia?
167: 122 nature & landscapes and 45 archaeological & historic sites. 138 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Western Australia?
Geffrard, dated to 1853. 43 of the 167 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Western Australia here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Western Australia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Western Australia is a first-level division of Australia, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.