Albany

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    35°02’S
  • Altitude:
    75 m
  • Heat degree days:
    1495
  • Growing season rainfall:
    303 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    19°C
  • Harvest:
    Mid-March to end April
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Birds

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It was not until Christmas Day 1826 that the western part of the Australian continent was formally claimed for Great Britain. The claim was not made at Perth or the Swan Valley (settled three years later) but here at Albany, 35 years after it had first been discovered and mapped in 1791.

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