7-522: Emu Point is a north-eastern suburb of the City of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It is located north-east of Albany's central business district . As of the 2021 census, it had a median age of 71. It was the location of a spring associated with the visit of George Vancouver in the 1790s. Emu Point was named by a survey ship in 1815. In the early twentieth century it became
14-403: A popular camping location, and has since continued as one with Big4 Emu Beach being established in 2014. It was gazetted as a suburb in 1979. Emu Point is a promontory that juts into the water at the channel that connects Oyster Harbour to its north with King George Sound . These two bodies of water respectively form the suburb's north-east and south-east boundaries. Its northern boundary
21-710: A process to formally define their boundaries and to gazette them, which is almost complete. In March 2006, only South Australia and the Northern Territory had not completed this process. The CGNA's Gazetteer of Australia recognises two types of locality: bounded and unbounded. Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address localities". In
28-638: Is Yakamia Creek and in the west by Lower King Road. Emu Beach is the largest stretch of beach in Emu Point at 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) long along King George Sound. The beach has been rated as one of Australia's cleanest beaches. The northern part of the suburb is the Boronia Reserve. Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia , used mainly for address purposes. The term locality
35-400: Is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to, a larger city. The Australian usage is closer to
42-808: The American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has subsequently been
49-438: The first instance, decisions about the names and boundaries of suburbs and localities are made by the local council in which they are located based on criteria such as community recognition. Local council decisions are, however, subject to approval by the state's geographical names board. The boundaries of some suburbs and localities overlap two or more local government areas (LGAs). Examples of this are Adamstown Heights , which
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