Torndirrup, Western Australia
locality in the City of Albany, Western Australia
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.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Torndirrup, Western Australia” as locality in the City of Albany, Western Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as locality in the City of Albany, Western Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56827012. Authority coordinates are -35.090, 117.895. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1943 and 1945.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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Questions for further research
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