plateaux
Western Australia.
Most of Western Australia, Australia's largest state, is made up of desert.
New Holland is now called Australia. Specifically, that part of Australia is mostly the state of Western Australia.
Australia's population is made up of mostly white Christians of Anglo-Saxon origin.
Australia, South America, Antarctica.
They were made up of mostly Western farmers.
When the Commonwealth of Australia was founded after Australia began to gain it's independence in 1901, the colony was already called Western Australia. When it was adopted by the federation in 1901, the name was kept and it was made a state. It was most likely called Western Australia because it is on the western side of Australia.
According to the CSIRO, 47.6% of Western Australia is made up of plateaux, that is, plains, hills, ranges and coastal plains in the most western region of the state. 30.4% of Western Australia is made up of sandy desert, whilst the Kimberley Ranges make up 9.9% of the state.
Because it is the western part of Australia
Mining is mostly concentrated in WA (Western Australia). This is because of its low population density and abundance of raw minerals.
During the early 1700s, explorers opened up new continents to settlement by people from Western nations (i.e. the Europeans, as it was defined then). The term "Western" came to encompass nations and former colonies (such as the U.S., Canada, and Australia) which were populated mostly by immigrants from Europe and their descendants.