Cape Leeuwin YHA
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Augusta is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia, where the Blackwood River emerges into Flinders Bay. It is the nearest town to Cape Leeuwin, on the furthest south-west corner of the Australian continent. In the 2001 census it had a population of 1694. It is within the Augusta-Margaret River Local Government area, and is in the Leeuwin Ward. Augusta was a stopping place on the Busselton to Flinders Bay Branch Railway which was government run from the 1920s to the 1950s. Prior to that M. C. Davies had a timber railway system that went to both Hamelin Bay and Flinders Bay jetties in the 1890s. Augusta was a summer holiday town for many during most of the twentieth century, but late in the 1900s many people chose to retire to the region for the cooler weather. As a consequence of this and rising land values in the Augusta Margaret River area, the region has experienced significant social change.
