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* Margaret River, a town several hours south of Perth famous for its surf break, its food and - most importantly - its wine.
* Wittenoom, a small town in the middle of nowhere, famous (or infamous) for 3 things: a blue asbestos mine where almost all the workers caught asbestosis, a book about said mine called Blue Murder, and a song about said mine by [[Midnight Oil]] called Blue Sky Mine.
** Technically, it's not even a town anymore: it was degazetted in 2007 (so is therefore no longer referenced on maps or [
* Broome, a small town that's popular with tourists due to its winter weather, history and large numbers of crocs. It was also bombed by the Japanese in [[World War II]].
** It is the biggest pearling site in Australia.
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'''Australian Capital Territory'''
* Only one city/town in this area, Canberra, the capital city of Australia. It is located "exactly" between Sydney and Melbourne ("exactly" here being an apparently new definition of the word that Sydney snuck in when no-one was looking), after a spat over which should be the capital of Australia. In the end, the wise decision of "neither" was made and politics was quarantined off into the middle of nowhere. Since most Australian cities are on the coast, building yet another coastal one as the capital would have taken business away from the others, so it was placed about 100 km inland. It's shaped like a giant bullseye, and it has roundabouts fucking ''everywhere.'' It was built on a sheep paddock (which should tell you something about Australia), and is generally considered boring. [
* Fact: 'Canberra' [[Meaningful Name|means meeting place in an Aboriginal dialect.]]
* Though actual residents of Canberra like it just fine, dislike for Canberra is so great among other cities that it is common for people who live and work there to refer to themselves as being from Sydney or Melbourne, even if they haven't live in those cities in the last decade they will still think of themselves as from a place other than Canberra!
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'''Tasmania'''
* There's this city called Hobart... and also a little place called Port Arthur, home to the single largest mass shooting with a single assailant in recorded history.
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'''Other Islands'''
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* Rottnest Island, named after the adorable little quokkas that roam the island after they were mistaken for giant rats. It's used as a cheap and affordable holiday resort for Perth families, and a place to have fun at <s> Schoolie's</s> Leaver's Week. Has the [[Old Shame|sad history]] of being an 'Aboriginal Prison'.
* Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island and home to dingo attacks and clueless tourists. The two are not unconnected.
* Lord Howe Island, an absolutely beautiful, pristine island that's home to the world's southernmost Coral Reef, Kentia palms and the [
* King Island, smack in the middle of Bass Strait. It's surrounded by shipwrecks, including a piece of the ''Shannon'' that ran aground about twenty metres off the coast, so one can run out and play on it if one wants to. Known for its dairy and cows. Lots and lots of cows, making lots of milk, cheese and beef. Also, kelp.
** Many of the beaches are inaccessible by road, so if you want to go, you have to hike. A school that sends students to the affectionately termed (by the students, at least) "KI" has them seeing more of the island than locals do in their lives.
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