Torndirrup, Western Australia
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Remnants of RAAF Air Warning Radar Station on Stony Hill, with Eclipse Island in the background | |||||||||||||
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Interactive map of Torndirrup | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 35°06′02″S 117°52′51″E / 35.10067°S 117.88080°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Western Australia | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 50.5 km2 (19.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 395 (SAL 2021) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 6330 | ||||||||||||
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Torndirrup is a locality of the City of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Torndirrup is on a peninsula of the same name and surrounded on three sides by water, with the Southern Ocean in the south and east and the King George Sound in the north-east. It also borders Princess Royal Harbour in the north-west. The entirety of Torndirrup National Park is located within Torndirrup and only small sections of the locality are not part of the national park.
Torndirrup is on the traditional land of the Minang people of the Noongar nation.
The state registered Cheyne Beach Whaling Station is located on Frenchman Bay, King George Sound, in the locality of Torndirrup.
During World War II, from 1943 to 1945, Stony Hill was the site of the Royal Australian Air Force Air Warning Radar Station Number 35.