D’Entrecasteaux National Park is a narrow strip of land 5 to 20 kilometres wide that stretches along the south coast for more than 130 kilometres between Augusta and Walpole.

It is the result of the amalgamation of various State forests and timber reserves, Crown Land, Shire of Manjimup Reserves, conservation reserves, pastoral leases and freehold purchases between the 1970s and 1990s.

In late 1792, Joseph-Antoine Raymond Bruni D’Entrecasteaux (1739–1793), a rear admiral in the French navy,  led an expedition of two ships L’Recherche and L’Esperance exploring along the entire southern coast of Western Australia and the naming of the National Park after him honours his exploits.

 

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