PORT OF CHAMPIONS
LOCATION AND CONTEXT
The City of Greater Geraldton is located on Western Australia’s ‘Batavia Coast’, 420 kilometres north of Perth via the Brand Highway. The bustling town centre is focused on the foreshore, adjacent the Port of Geraldton and residential areas extend north and south along the coast from the main township. With a population of about 41,000, Geraldton is the largest city north of Perth and the capital of the Mid West, a region spanning 478,000 square kilometres from Green Head to Kalbarri and extending more than 800 kilometres inland to Wiluna.
The Mid West has the state’s most diversified economy with fast-growing mining and resource centres, the largest fishing industry, intensive agriculture and a growing renewable energy sector. Geraldton is the region’s commercial, administrative and service hub, providing major port facilities and infrastructure and contributing an estimated $5.686-billion to the state’s economic output.
The Mid West is also recognised for its outstanding natural beauty, long pristine beaches interspersed with dramatic limestone cliffs, sandy plains and breakaways, seasonal masses of wildflowers and vast desert landscapes. Major geographical features include the Kalbarri National Park, Coalseam Conservation Park and the magnificent Houtman Abrolhos Islands.
ABORIGINAL CULTURE
Indigenous people have lived on the west coast of Australia
