Talk:Western Australian borders

Basis for article
At the National Museum of Australia today, I picked up a brochure on the "Garden of Australian Dreams". In the "garden" there is a yellow line which represents the Treaty of Tordesillas signed in 1494 between the Spanish and Portuguese. The museum's brochure claims that the treaty was used to divide the Australian continent. I can't work out whether or not this is legitimate or not. Peter Taylor's Atlas of Australian History has a chapter on state borders and does not mention the link. Web searching brings up a lot of links to the Theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia - a part of the theory depends on the treaty and the Portuguese keeping their activities secret because they weree in the wrong part of the world or some such notion. McIntyre does not have the credibility I would be reassured by. However, this chapter from a PhD thesis   provides a reasonable explanation as to why the Treaty was significant.--A Y Arktos\talk 09:50, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

WA Border overhaul - Linked dates to get to maps.
Hello, whoever is interested, Have made a fair few changes to the page and wonder whether people think that the style used here using abbr to list the various states involved, like WA /SA, is acceptable and what you think of idea to link by the (dates in brackets), of events, to go to the map of that date on a separate page. (Then use the back button of the browser to get quickly back to where you were in the article or not!).?

eg. (2 May 1829 - Map)

Had to also adjust the headings on the page with the maps to make the links work. I am also creating a new South Australian borders page along the same lines. Any comments/suggestions/ideas to improve the page are welcome. KHS-Boab (talk) 02:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Did You Know?
I didn't know until today that DYK? existed! So trying it on! KHS-Boab (talk) 08:32, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination
KHS-Boab (talk) 08:30, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

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Article is about LAND borders only
This article, like the others in this series, seems to be about land borders only. No mention is made of the other borders; that is, those adjoining water. Therefore, does anyone object to the articles being renamed to reflect this (perfectly fine) fact? Betterkeks (talk) 03:23, 15 September 2022 (UTC)


 * obvious and very clear it is needed to go the way you explain - I see no issue to have to ask at all, as we used to say in the early days WP:BOLD - JarrahTree 14:41, 15 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I’ll move them one by one. Betterkeks (talk) 18:24, 15 September 2022 (UTC)


 * After reflection, lets make these about all borders. WA is easy (but interesting). The others will be more difficult. For example, Tasmania and Victoria sharing a land border. Betterkeks (talk) 12:57, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
 * huh? on an island in the bass strait ? JarrahTree 13:22, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Crazy right? On Boundary Islet (-39.19848°N, 147.02168°W). Betterkeks (talk) 22:20, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

The Western Australian town closest to the border.
"The Western Australian town closest to the border is Kununurra, which is about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the border with the NT."

But Eucla is closer to the border, isn't it? Grassynoel (talk) 14:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Correct, if Eucla Motel is gauged as the centre point of Eucla the locality, then half the distance... or even Yurkla Way point of contact with Eyre Highway lies - is less then half of the Kununurra distance. A brief check of the article about eucla makes a claim for 11 km or 7 miles distance from the border JarrahTree 15:01, 5 December 2022 (UTC)