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Rottnest Island (Nyungar:
Wadjemup),
often colloquially referred to as "Rotto", is a 19-square-kilometre (7.3 sq mi)
island off the
coast of
Western Australia...
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Completed in 1849, the
original 20-metre (66 ft)
Wadjemup Lighthouse (also
known as
Rottnest Island Light Station) was
Western Australia's
first stone...
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Wadjemup Lighthouse plaque...
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explorer Willem de
Vlamingh mistook them for
giant rats, and
renamed the
Wadjemup island 't
Eylandt 't Rottenest,
which means "the rat nest island" in Dutch...
- 1838, ten
Aboriginal prisoners were sent to
Rottnest Island (Nyungar:
Wadjemup,
possibly meaning "place
across the water").
After a
short period when...
- named. The
named hills of
Rottnest are
Wadjemup Hill,
Oliver Hill,
Radar Hill and
Mount Herschel. Of
these Wadjemup Hill is the highest, at 45
metres (148 ft)...
- 20-metre (66 ft)
tower was
replaced in 1896 with a new tower, the
current Wadjemup Lighthouse.
Following an
inquiry after the City of York
disaster in 1899...
- Park –
State War Memorial)
Fremantle →
Rottnest Island Rottnest Island (
Wadjemup Lighthouse)
Rottnest Island (Salmon Bay)
Rottnest Island →
Fremantle or...
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Lighthouse is one of two
lighthouses on
Rottnest Island, the
other being Wadjemup Lighthouse. It is
located on
Bathurst Point, in the
northeast of the island...
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Retrieved 7 July 2023.
Australian Geographical Society (1956-04-30), "
WADJEMUP (30
April 1956)", Walkabout, 22 (5),
Australian National Travel ****ociation:...
