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Busselton, city, southwestern Western Australia, on the south shore of Geographe Bay, southwest of Bunbury. It is located within a noted agricultural region. The area was inhabited for some 50,000 years by Aboriginal Wardandi people prior to the arrival of Europeans. It was visited in 1801 by a French expedition that explored the Western Australian coast. The locality was settled by the Bussell family, who established its “Cattle Chosen” stock station there in the early...

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