Torndirrup, Western Australia
Locality in the City of Albany, Western Australia
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Torndirrup is a locality of the City of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Torndirrup is on a peninsula of the same name and surrounded on three sides by water, with the Southern Ocean in the south and east and the King George Sound in the north-east. It also borders Princess Royal Harbour in the north-west. The entirety of Torndirrup National Park is located within Torndirrup and only small sections of the locality are not part of the national park.[2][3]
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Remnants of RAAF Air Warning Radar Station on Stony Hill, with Eclipse Island in the background | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 35.10067°S 117.88080°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Western Australia | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 50.5 km2 (19.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 395 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 6330 | ||||||||||||
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Torndirrup is on the traditional land of the Minang people of the Noongar nation.[4]
The state registered Cheyne Beach Whaling Station is located on Frenchman Bay, King George Sound, in the locality of Torndirrup.[5]
During World War II, from 1943 to 1945, Stony Hill was the site of the Royal Australian Air Force Air Warning Radar Station Number 35.[6][7]
