Minilya, Western Australia

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Location of Minilya in Western Australia (red)

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Minilya is a location in Western Australia north of Carnarvon on the North West Coastal Highway. It is at a junction in the North West Coastal Highway, where the turn off to Exmouth is Script error: No such module "convert". from that location. The main highway then continues to the next junction 217 kilometres further, at Nanutarra Roadhouse.

At the 2016 census, Minilya had a population of 19,[1] down from 137 in 2006.[2]

Marsh Hill and the Lyndon River lie north of Minilya. The Lyndon River flows into Lake Macleod.[3][4]

Charles Brockman and George Hamersley were the first to visit the area, in 1876.[5] Brockman and Hamersley named both the Minilya River (origin unknown, of an Aboriginal source) and the Lyndon River.[6] The pseudonymous photographer Coyarre won multiple awards and was published in the Western Mail with her photographs of the area.

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