Mount Ney, Western Australia
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| Mount Ney Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Mount Ney | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 33°20′21″S 122°22′17″E / 33.33924°S 122.37144°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 8 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 6447 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 1,018.9 km2 (393.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Shire of Esperance | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Roe | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | O'Connor | ||||||||||||||
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Mount Ney is a rural locality of the Shire of Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. Parts of the Kau Rock Nature Reserve and all of the Mount Ney Nature Reserve are located within Mount Ney, the latter centred around the 328 metres (1,076 ft)-high mountain of the same name.[2][3]
The traditional lands of the Wudjari and Njunga people, both of the Noongar nation, occupy most of the Shire of Esperance, including the area around Esperance. The eastern tribes of the Wudjari, the Njunga, are seen as a separate people for cultural reasons, having adopted different cultural practices. The Young River, in the west of the shire, forms the boundary between the two groups and Mount Ney is on the traditional land of the latter.[4][5][6]
The Kau Rock Nature Reserve, which also stretches into neighboring Wittenoom Hills and Neridup, was gazetted on 2 August 1974, has a size of 158.14 square kilometres (61.06 sq mi) and is located in the Mallee bioregion. The Mount Ney Nature Reserve was gazetted on 2 August 1974, has a size of 6.1 square kilometres (2.4 sq mi) and is also located in the Mallee bioregion.[7]
No major roads traverse the locality and all roads within it are unsealed.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Ney (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "SLIP Map". maps.slip.wa.gov.au. Landgate. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "NationalMap". nationalmap.gov.au. Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Wudjari (WA)". samuseum.sa.gov.au. South Australian Museum. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Njunga (WA)". samuseum.sa.gov.au. South Australian Museum. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Map of Indigenous Australia". aiatsis.gov.au. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ "Terrestrial CAPAD 2022 WA summary". www.dcceew.gov.au/. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ Hema, Maps (2017). Western Australia Road and 4WD Track Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains, Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 95 & 112. ISBN 978-1-86500-732-8.
