Leeuwin

Leeuwin

Leeuwin is Dutch for "lioness". It may refer to:

;Places
* Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of Australia;;
* Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, the national park in which Cape Leeuwin is located;
* Leeuwin Barracks, formerly HMAS "Leeuwin", a Royal Australian Navy shore base in North Fremantle;

;Ships
* "Leeuwin", Dutch galleon that encountered south-west Australia in 1622;
* HMAS "Leeuwin" (A 245), a hydrographic survey ship;
** "Leeuwin" class survey vessel, the class of HMAS "Leeuwin"
* STS "Leeuwin", a Western Australian sail training ship;

;Other
* the Leeuwin Current, a warm ocean current flowing down the west coast of Australia;
* the Leeuwin Triplefin ("Norfolkia leeuwin"), a species of small fish of the Tripterygiidae family;
* "Leeuwin", a short-lived literary journal published in Western Australia by Willem Siebenhaar in 1910.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Leeuwin — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Leeuwin », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Du néerlandais qui signifie… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Leeuwin (galleon) — Leeuwin ( Lioness , also spelt Leeuwine in some VOC documents) was a Dutch galleon that discovered and mapped some of the southwest corner of Australia in March 1622. In this way it became only the seventh European ship to sight the… …   Wikipedia

  • Leeuwin Current — is a warm ocean current which flows southwards near the western coast of Australia. It rounds Cape Leeuwin to enter the waters south of Australia where its influence extends as far as Tasmania. The West Australian Current and Southern Australian… …   Wikipedia

  • Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park — Leeuwin Naturaliste is a national park in Western Australia (Australia), 267 km south of Perth. It is named after the two locations at either end of the park which have lighthouses, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste.It is located in the Augusta… …   Wikipedia

  • Leeuwin-Naturaliste-Nationalpark — Küste des Leeuwin Naturaliste Nationalpark …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation — The Leeuwin II tall ship is owned and operated by the Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation Ltd, a not for profit organisation based in Fremantle, Western Australia.Launched in 1986, Leeuwin II is Australia s largest ocean going tall ship and is… …   Wikipedia

  • Leeuwin class survey vessel — The Leeuwin class is a class of two hydrographic survey vessels in the Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Leeuwin and HMAS Melville . Both ships were built by NQEA in Cairns, Queensland, and entered service in 2000.Both ships take their names from… …   Wikipedia

  • Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park — noun a national park in south western WA, comprising the coastal area from Cape Naturaliste south to Cape Leeuwin and including the Boranup Karri Forest. 19 700 ha …  

  • Leeuwin — /ˈluən/ (say loohuhn) noun Cape, a cape forming part of the south western coast of WA …  

  • Cape Leeuwin — Infobox Lighthouse caption = Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse location = On the headland of the cape coordinates = yearbuilt = yearlit = 1895 automated = 1895 yeardeactivated = foundation = construction = Limestone shape = Conical marking = White, round… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”