Gracetown, Western Australia

Gracetown, Western Australia

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Gracetown
state = wa


caption =
lga = Augusta-Margaret River
postcode = 6284
est = 1963
pop = 323 (2006 Census) [Census 2006 AUS|id=SSC54016|name=Gracetown (State Suburb)|quick=on|accessdate=2008-09-20]
elevation= 25
stategov = Vasse
fedgov = Forrest
dist1 = 283
dir1 = SSW
location1= Perth
dist2 = 11
dir2 = W
location2= Cowaramup
dist3 = 13
dir3 = NW
location3= Margaret River
coord|-33.8671|114.9879|type:city(323)_region:AU-WA_scale:50000|format=dms|display=title

Gracetown is a small town in Western Australia. It is located 283 km south of the Perth CBD, in the Augusta-Margaret River Shire Council area on the coast at Cowaramup Bay.

The area was initially used as a holiday area and later in 1957 it was proposed that the area should be developed as a camping and caravan park. Instead the government decided that the area would be developed as a townsite.The area was surveyed in 1961 and the bulk of the townsite was planned. Sale of lots within the townsite occurred in 1963, the same year the town was gazetted. [LandInfo WA|c|G|2008-09-20]

It was named in honour of local Western Australian heroine Grace Bussell.

In 1996 a terrible tragedy occurred on the local beach close to town when four adults and five children were killed in a cliff collapse while watching a surfing carnival. The victims were sheltering underneath a rock overhang at the base of the limestone cliff during a rain storm when the cliff collapsed without warning. [cite web|url=http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=736281266015277;res=IELENG|title=Informit - The Rockfall of Huzzas Cliff, Gracetown, Western Australia|year=2005|accessdate=2008-09-20] [cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/wa/bunbury/200408/s1167146.htm|title=ABC News - Gracetown cliff collapse claim before court|year=2004|accessdate=2008-09-20]

References

External links

* [http://www.amrsc.wa.gov.au/ Augusta-Margaret River Shire Council]


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