What is Western Australia like?

Answer 1

Like any of Australia's states or territories, Western Australia has a wide variety of climate and topography.

Most of the state is desert, and it contains the largest open-cut gold mine, a massive open pit known as the Super Pit. There are a variety of fascinating landforms in Western Australia, such as the Pinnacles, Wave Rock, the Bungle Bungles and Mt Augustus, which is the world's largest monolith, larger even than Uluru/Ayers Rock in central Australia.

Towards the coast and in the south, large tracts of land are used for crops and for running sheep and/or cattle. These sheep stations or cattle stations are huge, often running into thousands of square kilometres in size. Perth is a beautiful city, well-planned and temperate for much of the year. Like all the other capital cities of Australia, it has its blistering hot days, sudden storms and deluges, yet also bitterly cold days. Winters on the southern coast are marked by sharp, cold Antarctic winds straight off the southern ocean.

The fauna and flora of Western Australia is unique. Plants have adapted to the drier conditions, and the state is known for its unique floral emblem, the Red and Green Kangaroo Paw. Animals such as platypuses, koalas and wombats are not found in Western Australia, but it has creatures such as the very unique little marsupial, the numbat. Giant burrowing bees are also found in Western Australia.