Augusta is situated on the south coast of Australia’s South West tourist region.
Augusta faces the Southern and Indian Oceans at Cape Leeuwin on the shores of Hamelin Bay and mouth of the Blackwood River. Augusta is the most south-western town in Western Australia.
The south west coast from Point Nuyts (Walpole) to Hamelin Bay (near Augusta) was first seen by early explorers in 1622 from the Dutch ship the Leeuwin.
Then expeditions by French explorers of De Freycinet, D’Entrecasteaux, Baudin and Hamelin came in the late 18th to early 19th century. Captain Matthew Flinders charted the south west coast from 1801 to 1803 and proved that Cape Leeuwin was part of the mainland. Flinders dropped off some early settlers and Augusta became Western Australia’s third settlement.
Augusta was founded in 1830.
