[2] The earliest full charting of the coastline occurred during exploration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
[3] The coastline has some features or organisms that are found on the entire length,[4] while some others are specific to particular coastal regions.
[7] The IMCRA has offshore regions delineated in a systematic appraisal of ecology and geography.
[12] The coastal regions include a range of beaches, cliffs, and coastline features that are dependent upon the underlying geology; the geological provinces have direct relationship to the coastal forms: Specifically referring to Sound (geography) The Western Australian coastline has the greatest diversity of seagrasses in the world, and the meadows they form are among the largest on earth.
[13] Title 3rd WA State Coastal Conference, Mandurah – Bunbury – Busselton, November 2005 : coastal solutions : balancing the waves of change : program and papers.