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Bruce Munro's Field of Light: Avenue of Honour,  Albany.

Albany, Western Australia: Art installation lights up Anzacs' departure point

An installation extends 350 metres either side of the road leading up to the site of Australia's first commemorative dawn service.

  • by Penny Watson
Cheynes Beach, Albany, WA.

Historic Whaling Station, Albany, Western Australia: Is whale flensing the worst job in Australian history?

It was a job very well paid but so dangerous that no insurer would dare insure the workers.

  • by David Whitley
Albany Western Australia

Albany, Western Australia: Travel guide and things to do

What an extraordinary town! A main street which seems to go straight into the Princess Royal Harbour.

Sunset at Middleton Beach

Twenty reasons to visit Albany

The coastline near Albany has some outstanding beaches. Little Beach, in Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, is sometimes referred to as the best in Australia.

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The veil of mystique is being lifted on one of WA's premier properties

It is a rare opportunity to snuggle into the same sheets as a pop star of the likes of Lady Gaga, but there is one home in regional WA recently opened to the public where it is possible to lie in the bed of the monster mother.

  • by Courtney Trenwith
Cheynes IV old whaling ship, Albany, Western Australia. Phtoograph by Getty 
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Whales out west

Where sea giants once met a grisly end, Mal Chenu finds a host of new attractions.

Whale tales ... a skeleton displayed at Whale World, Albany.

Remains of the bay

Albany's old whaling station has become a world-class museum, writes Max Anderson.

Splendid isolation ... the sprawling Maitraya homestead.

A perfect hiding place

Seclusion worthy of a global celebrity envelopes Max Anderson at an outpost facing the Southern Ocean.

Greens Pool at William Bay National Park is rimmed by beach and stone.

Cornered by the karris

Curious about right angles, Sian Prior takes a trigonometric journey to forest and ocean in the state's south-west.