Esperance Western Australia
Population:	9536
Established:	1896
Postcode:	6450
Mayor:	Ian Mickel
LGA:	Shire of Esperance
State District:	Roe
Federal Division:	Kalgoorlie
Mean Max Temp Mean Min Temp Rainfall 21.2 °C 70 °F 11.4 °C 53 °F 676.2 mm 26.6 in

Esperance is a town in Western Australia, located on the south coast around half-way between Albany and the South Australian border. Its population is almost 10,000 people, and its major industries are tourism, agriculture, and fishing. Slogan or Nickname: Wildflower State or the Golden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 15  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2005-06)  - Product ($m)  $107,910 (4th)  - Product per capita  $53,134/person... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x1367, 99 KB) Shows location of w: Esperance, Western Australia marked in red in the Australian state of w:Western Australia. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Map of Local Government Areas in Western Australia There are 144 Local Governments in Western Australia (including Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands), represented by the Western Australian Local Government Association. ... This article is about a local government area. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... Roe is an Electoral district of Western Australia. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... The Division of Kalgoorlie is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia. ... For other uses, see Celsius (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fahrenheit (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Celsius (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fahrenheit (disambiguation). ... This article is about the unit of length. ... An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... Slogan or Nickname: Wildflower State or the Golden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 15  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2005-06)  - Product ($m)  $107,910 (4th)  - Product per capita  $53,134/person... Albany, (IPA: }, is the largest regional city in WA situated on the south coast of Western Australia south-southeast of Perth. ... For the song, see South Australia (song). ... Tourist redirects here. ... Salmon for sale at a marketplace The Fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products. ...

Attractions

Approximately 7.5 hours' drive or a 1.5 hour flight from Perth, the state capital, Esperance is a popular destination for medium term trips for families based there. It is also around 4 hours' drive south from the Goldfields mining town of Kalgoorlie, and offers a convenient get-away for weekends for the mine workers. Location of Perth within Australia This article is about the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. ... The Goldfields-Esperance region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. ... This article is about mineral extractions. ... Kalgoorlie is a Western Australian city located about 600 km east of Perth. ...

Near the town itself are many attractive beaches, offering surfing, scuba diving, and swimming. Also nearby are a number of salt lakes, including the Pink Lake, which gains its rosey hue from red algae living within its waters. For other uses, see Surfing (disambiguation). ... Scuba diving is swimming underwater while using self-contained breathing equipment. ... Swimmer redirects here. ... Possible classes Florideophyceae Bangiophyceae Cyanidiophyceae The red algae (Rhodophyta, IPA: , from Greek: (rhodon) = rose + (phyton) = plant, thus red plant) are a large group, about 5,000–6,000 species [1] of mostly multicellular, marine algae, including many notable seaweeds. ...

There are five major national parks near the town. A major nearby tourist attraction, 56 km from the town center, is the Cape Le Grand National Park, which offers a picturesque coast of largely granite terrain and sheltered white sand beaches. The park is a popular spot for recreational fishing, as well as four wheel drive enthusiasts and hikers. This article is about national parks. ... Overlooking Lucky Bay, one of the beaches at Cape le Grand Lucky Bay is a popular destination for tourists Cape Le Grand is a national park in Western Australia, 631km south-east of Perth and 56km east of Esperance. ... For other uses, see granite (disambiguation). ... Fishermen in the harbor of Kochi, India. ... Four wheel drive or 4x4, is a type of four wheeled vehicle drivetrain configuration that enables all four wheels to receive power from the engine simultaneously in order to provide maximum traction. ... Two hikers in the Mount Hood National Forest Eagle Creek hiking Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ...

West Beach Image File history File links Esperance_beach. ...

Pink Lake Image File history File linksMetadata Pink_Lake_Sunset. ...

View of Esperance Bay Image File history File linksMetadata Esperance_Bay_of_Isles. ...

Climate

Esperance has a Mediterranean-type climate with warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters. It is subject to wide variations in the weather, from hot summer days when northerly winds arrive from the interior of the state, to cold, wet winter days with southerly winds from the Great Southern Ocean. The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... The Southern Ocean is the body of water encircling the continent of Antarctica. ...

History

European history dates back to 1627 when the Dutch vessel Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by François Thijssen, passed through the blue waters off the Esperance coast. François Thijssen was a Dutch explorer who is famous because of his travel along the South coast of Australia. ...

French explorers are credited with making the first landfall near the present day town, naming it and other local landmarks whilst sheltering from a storm in this area in 1792. The town itself was named after the French ship, the L'Espérance, commanded by Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Esperance, roughly translated, is French for 'hope'. Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni DEntrecasteaux (1739–1793) was a French navigator who explored the Australian coast in 1792 while seeking traces of the lost expedition of La Pérouse. ...

In 1802, British navigator Matthew Flinders sailed the Bay of Isles, discovering and naming places such as Lucky Bay and Thistle Cove. Whalers, sealers and pirates followed, as did pastoralists and miners, keen to exploit the free land and cash in on the gold boom in the gold fields to the north. Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most successful navigators and cartographers of his age. ... The crew of the oceanographic research vessel Princesse Alice, of Albert Grimaldi (later Prince Albert I of Monaco) pose while flensing a catch. ... Categories: Disambiguation | Stub ... Look up pirate and piracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Pastoralism is a form of farming, such as agriculture and horticulture. ...

The area of the Esperance townsite was first settled by the Dempsters, a pioneer family of Scottish descent, in the 1870s.^[1] A telegraph station was opened in 1876, although the formal gazettal of the townsite did not occur until 1893. This article is about the Scottish as an ethnic group. ... // The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... Year 1876 Pick up Sticks(MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

In 1979, pieces of the space station Skylab landed in Esperance after the craft broke up over the Indian Ocean. The municipality fined the United States $400 for littering. The fine was never paid. ^[2] The International Space Station in 2007 A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space. ... For other uses, see Skylab (disambiguation). ...

In January 2007, Esperance was rocked by two major events.

First, a torrential storm with wind gusts of up to 110km/h brought 155mm of rainfall within 24 hours, causing significant flooding. More than 100 homes were damaged, several boats were destroyed, trees were felled and 35m of bridge on the South Coast Highway, the main road linking Esperance to Perth, was washed away. The Western Australian Government declared the area a natural disaster zone. Over 37,000 sheep were killed in the storm.^[3][4] In meteorology, precipitation is any kind of water that falls from the sky as part of the weather. ... A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ... South Coast Highway is a Western Australia highway. ... Location of Perth within Australia This article is about the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. ... This article describes the national government of Australia. ...

Secondly, commencing just before the storm, thousands of birds (including wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, New Holland honeyeaters and singing honeyeaters, and some crows, hawks and pigeons) fell dead from the skies.^[5] Subsequent tests on bird samples collected from the Esperance townsite revealed the deaths had been caused by lead poisoning from dust escaping during loading of Magellan Metals product at the Esperance Port Authority.^[6] Tests on the town's population showed elevated lead levels among some residents, leading to a major clean-up operation. A Western Australian state parliamentary inquiry found the mining company Magellan Metals, several government departments and the Esperance Port Authority responsible for the lead pollution in the town.^[7] For other uses of the word Crow, please see Crow (disambiguation). ... For the politican faction referred to as hawks see Bush administration. ... Pigeon redirects here. ...

Esperance Port

The only port in the south east of Western Australia, the Esperance Port Authority completed an A$54 million dollar upgrade in 2002. The upgrade made the port one of the deepest in Southern Australia, capable of handling Cape class vessels (up to 180,000 tonnes) and fully loaded Panamax class vessels (up to 75,000 tonnes). ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 1. ... The two ships seen here seem almost to be touching the walls of the Miraflores Locks. ...

Exports for the year ending June 2005 were 7,394,155 tonnes, including 1.7 million tonnes of grain, and 5.3 million tonnes of iron ore which is railed from Koolyanobbing. This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ... Kooylanobbing is located 54 km NNE of the town of Southern Cross, Western Australia. ...

Education

Esperance has a wide range of primary and secondary school choices such as:

• Our Lady Star Of The Sea Catholic Primary School (students - 255) - Located up in West Beach
• Esperance Primary School (students - 600) - Located in the town centre
• Castletown Primary School (students - 800) - Located in Castletown, the suburb
• Nulsen Primary School (students - 400) - Located in Nulsen, the suburb, across the road from the Esperance Senior High School
• Esperance Christian Primary School (students - 50) - Located behind the Esperance Senior High School in Sinclair, the suburb
• Esperance Senior High School (students - 1200) - Located in Sinclair, the suburb, across the road from Nulsen Primary School

The Anglican Schools Commission is in the middle of building an Esperance Anglican High School, so that parents can have another choice for secondary schooling for their children. The school is planned to open in February 2008.

Curtin University of Technology also has a micro-campus located in Esperance, offering a limited number of TAFE and university courses. Curtin University of Technology - Building 408, with adjacent 3. ... In Australia, Technical and Further Education or TAFE institutions are those which offer a wide range of post-secondary education and training, generally in vocational fields (such as hospitality, tourism, construction, woodwork, secretarial skills, community work, etc), often at a level of difficulty below that of a corresponding or related...

Twin town

• Saint-Martin-de-Ré

Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Saint-Martin-de-Ré is a commune of the Charente-Maritime département in France. ...

See also

• Esperance Airport
• Archipelago of the Recherche

References

Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 95th day of the year (96th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Shire of Esperance
• Esperance Visitor Centre
• esperance.yourguide