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Kalbarri is a coastal town in the Mid West region located 592 km north of Perth, Western Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Main Roads - Distances from Perth )〕 The town is found at the mouth of the Murchison River and has an elevation of .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australian Bureau of Meteorology - Climate Summary statistics KALBARRI )〕 It is connected by public transport to Perth via Transwa coach services N1 and N2. == History == The local Aboriginal people inhabited the area for thousands of years and have a dreaming story about the Rainbow Serpent forming the Murchison River as she came from inland to the coast.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kalbarri Aboriginal history )〕 The first European people to visit the area were the crew of the trading ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company, the ''Batavia'', who put two mutinous crew members ashore near Bluff Point just south of the town. The cliffs near the river mouth were named after another trading ship, the ''Zuytdorp'', that was wrecked there in 1712. The area became a popular fishing and tourist spot in the 1940s and by 1948 the state government declared a townsite. Lots were soon surveyed and the town was gazetted in 1951. Kalbarri was named after an Aboriginal man from the Murchison tribe and is also the name of an edible seed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kalbarri, Western Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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