Hopetoun, Western Australia
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Hopetoun is a town on the south coast of Western Australia in the Shire of Ravensthorpe. Located on Mary Ann Harbour, Hopetoun is Script error: No such module "convert". south-east from capital city Perth, Script error: No such module "convert". west of Esperance and 41 kilometres (25 mi) south of Ravensthorpe.
History
Mary Ann Harbour was named in November 1865 by the sealer James Sale on the cutter Mary Ann. Mary Ann was owned by whaling master John Thomas of Cheyne's Beach, Script error: No such module "convert". east of Albany, who had named it after his eldest daughter.[1]
Hopetoun was established in 1900 as the port servicing the Phillips River goldfield, named after the first Governor-General of Australia, John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun.[2] The townsite was gazetted on 9 February 1901.[3]
The town became a shipping port for the mining industry, with a jetty built in 1901, the terminus of a railway line between Hopetoun and Ravensthorpe that operated from 1909 to 1935. The port was closed in 1937, with the jetty remaining until its destruction in 1983.[2][4][5][6]
Some of the town's electricity is generated by a wind-diesel system. Hopetoun has two 600 kilowatt wind turbines and two low-load diesel generators.[7]
The population in the 2016 census was 871, a 38% fall from 1,398 in 2011, due to the closure of the nearby Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine. Hopetoun was a major site of accommodation for the mine, east of the town of Ravensthorpe. There is a primary school, police station and a doctor has clinics in both Hopetoun and Ravensthorpe. Hopetoun also has a hotel, motel, tavern, bakery, IGA supermarket, two cafes, post office/general store, hairdressers, beauty salon, community resource centre, chemist and two real estate agencies.[8][9]
Geography
Hopetoun is located 9km from the eastern entrance of the Fitzgerald River National Park, separated by bushland and the Culham Inlet with East Mount Barren overlooking the town.[10] The only sealed road into the park, Hamersley Drive, is located on the outskirts of Hopetoun.[11] The surrounding coastal heathlands and shrublands are part of the globally recognised Fitzgerald Biosphere.[12]
Climate
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References
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- ↑ Western Australian Government Gazette, file 9159/00, 9 February 1901, p.676.
- ↑ The Hopetoun - Ravensthorpe Railway Nugent, P.W. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, November 1966, pp249–262
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