Albany City
| City of Albany | |
 Location of Albany City in Western Australia |
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 Western Australia
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| Administrative headquarters: | Albany |
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| Area : | 4,312.3 km² |
| Residents : | 36,583 (2016) |
| Population density : | 8.5 inhabitants per km² |
| Wards : | 6th |
Coordinates: 35 ° 1 ′ S , 117 ° 52 ′ E The City of Albany is a local government area (LGA) in the Australian state of Western Australia . The area is 4312 km² and has 36,500 inhabitants (2016). Albany is located on the south coast, about 400 kilometers southeast of the capital Perth.
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The seat of the City Council is in the coastal town of Albany in the southwest of the LGA, where about 29,373 inhabitants live (2016). The following localities and districts are included in the city: Albany , Bayonet Head , Centennial Park , Collingwood Heights , Collingwood Park , Cuthbert , Emu Point , Gledhow , Lange , Lockyer , Lower King , McKail , Middleton Beach , Milpara , Mira Mar , Mount Clarence , Mount Elphinstone , Mount Melville , Orana , Robinson , Seppings , Spencer Park , Port Albany , Warrenup , Yakamia .
Other places and settlements in the LGA are Big Grove , Bornholm , Cheynes , Drome , Elleker , Frenchman Bay , Gnowellen , Goode Beach , Green Range , Green Valley , Kalgan , King River , Kojaneerup South , Kronkup , Little Grove , Lowlands , Manypeaks , Marbelup , Mettler , Millbrook , Nanarup , Napier , Nullaki , Palmdale , Redmond , Redmond West , South Stirling , Torbay , Torndirrup , Vancouver Peninsula , Walmsley , Wellstead , Willyung and Youngs Siding .
history
The coast of Albany was first mentioned by the Dutch navigator François Thijssen , who sailed around the southern continent in 1626. George Vancouver mapped the region for the British in 1791 and gave many of the current names. The French Nicolas Baudin also explored the inland in 1803 and followed the Kalgan River.
On the site of today's Albany, the first European settlement in western Australia was built in 1826, but Perth, which was founded three years later, quickly developed into the new center of the west coast. Albany remained a local center due to its importance as a port city. In the 1840s, first attempts were made to install local administrations to improve the infrastructure, especially the roads. In 1843 the General Roads Trust established a District Committee in Albany, which was replaced by a Local Board in 1848. Albany was one of the earliest districts of Western Australia. But in the years to come, mainly because of the lack of finances in the sparsely populated west, decisions were mostly made centrally in Perth. It was not until 1871 that a Municipalities Act gave more local decision-making powers and Albany became one of the first six municipalities with its own council.
Until the middle of the 20th century, almost the entire state was divided into local administrative areas, and the Local Government Act of 1960 established the basis of today's local self-government. At that time, the city still formed its own LGA, the Town of Albany, and the surrounding area was organized in a separate Shire. On July 1, 1998, Town and Shire merged to form the City of Albany.
economy
In the 19th century the importance of the region was based mainly on the port of the city of Albany. Even after the role as a stopover and loading point for shipping was lost, fishing and whaling dominated the economy of the city and the surrounding area well into the 20th century. When the whale hunt stopped in 1978, the marine mammals living off the coast became a tourist attraction and the development of nature, especially along the coast, made tourism a crucial economic factor in the area.
In addition, agriculture is carried out in the LGA. Viticulture has been established since the early 1970s and is particularly located along the Kalgan River. To the west of Redmond there are large areas of forest that are used for forestry purposes.
Albany is part of the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. In 1993 LGAs with similar economic prerequisites were merged to form regions in order to operate targeted economic development in the areas. The regional administrative headquarters are in Albany.
geography
Albany City is dominated by the coast that borders the LGA to the south. Some beaches of great tourist interest can be found along the coastline ( Anvil Beach , Lowlands Beach, Dunsky Beach, Shelley Beach, Dingo Beach, Cozy Corner Beach, Perkins Beach, Cable Beach, Misery Beach, Whalers Beach, Goode Beach, Vancouver Beach, Middleton Beach , Emu Beach, Gull Rock Beach, Ben Dearg Beach , Nanarup Beach, Bettys Beach, Normans Beach, Hassell Beach, Pallinup Beach). The tourist center is the city of Albany with the upstream King George Sound and the two foothills Princess Royal Harbor and Oyster Harbor, as well as Two Peoples Bay to the east. Some islands are off the LGA coast, including Michealmas and Breaksea Island at the entrance to King George Sound and Coffin Island south of Two Peoples Bay and the Bald Island nature reserve southeast of Cheynes Beach.
The Wilson Inlet and the Hay River limit the LGA to the west against the Denmark Shire . In the east and northeast, the Pallinup River, which flows into the Beaufort Inlet, forms the border to the Jerramungup and the Gnowangerup Shire . The Plantagenet Shire connects to the north of Albany City . Numerous smaller rivers and creeks flow within the LGA and beyond, including Sleeman Creek, which flows into the Hay River, and the Kalgan River, which flows into Oyster Harbor near Albany and has multiple tributaries. Other larger inland waters are Lake Powell near Albany, Gull Rock Lake, and Moates and Gardner Lake.
Both lakes are located in the Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, one of a number of LGA nature reserves, the largest of which can be found along the coast. These also include West Cape Howe , Torndirrup , Gull Rock , Waychinicup National Park and Mount Manypeaks Nature Reserve. The Hassell National Park runs along the South Coast Highway west of Green Range and south of Mettler. And the southeast corner of the Stirling Range National Park is also still in the LGA area.
Torbay Head in West Cape Howe National Park west of Albany is the southernmost point of Western Australia.
Infrastructure
traffic
Albany can be reached directly by airline from the capital Perth. The flight time to Perth is about an hour. Flight operations are outsourced to a private airline by the state government. The Albany Regional Airport ( Harry Riggs Albany Regional Airport ) is located about eleven kilometers northwest of the city center on the Albany Highway .
By road, Albany City can be reached via the South Coast Highway (National Highway 1), which runs along the south coast of Australia. The highway runs through the LGA from east to west from Youngs Siding to Wellstead. A direct connection to Perth is the Albany Highway (State Route 30). He leaves the city of Albany towards the north and after 410 km reaches the capital of the state. Another national road is the Chester Pass Road, which leaves the LGA from Albany via Napier in a north-easterly direction and joins the road network that opens up the interior of Western Australia.
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The rail link to Albany has existed since 1889 and is known as the Great Southern Railway after the railway company that operated it at the end of the 19th century. It is the central rail link through the southern half of the state and has as its starting point the village of Beverley about 130 km east of Perth. The railway line leaves the city of Albany to the west and then turns north via Elleker and Redmond.
energy
In 2001 the Albany Wind Farm was opened in the city of Albany on the coast and in 2011 it was expanded ( Grasmere Wind Farm ). With 18 wind turbines, 35.4 megawatts of electricity are produced, covering 80% of the city's electricity needs.
administration
The Albany Council has twelve members. Two members each are elected by the residents of the six wards (Breaksea, Frederickstown, Kalgan, Vancouver, West and Yakamia); the chairman and mayor are also elected by all residents of the LGA.
Web links
- Official site of the Albany Council (English)
- Rainbow Coast (English)
- id.com.au: City of Albany Community Profile (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Albany (C) (Local Government Area) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved on 2020-034-12.
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Albany (Urban Center / Locality) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
- ^ Albany Australia - History
- ^ History of WA Local Government ( Memento of May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Western Australian Local Government Association
- ^ The Albany Airport WA , Airport Guide Australia, accessed June 6, 2013
- ^ The Great Southern Railway of Western Australia , Roger Palmer (member of the Australian Railway Historical Society, private website), accessed June 6, 2013
- ^ Albany Wind Farm ( Memento of July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Verve Energy, 2013