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Molloy Island, Western Australia

locality in Western Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ31431922 ↗
Source-derived summary

Molloy Island is a small townsite located in the South West region of Western Australia in the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, specifically on the island in the Blackwood River.

The island was the location of an attempt at possum farming in the 1920s.

The island was the location of an attempt at possum farming in the 1920s.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Molloy Island, Western Australia” as locality in Western Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 57-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Molloy, Island and Western can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as locality in Western Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q31431922. Authority coordinates are -34.268, 115.212. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Molloy Island, Western Australia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.