Leeuwin

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Leeuwin is Dutch for "lioness". It may refer to:

Places

• Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of Australia;;
• Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, the national park in which Cape Leeuwin is located;
• Leeuwin Barracks, formerly HMAS Leeuwin, a Royal Australian Navy shore base in North Fremantle;

Ships

• Leeuwin, Dutch galleon that encountered south-west Australia in 1622;
• HMAS Leeuwin (A 245), a hydrographic survey ship;
  • Leeuwin class survey vessel, the class of HMAS Leeuwin
• STS Leeuwin, a Western Australian sail training ship;

Other

• the Leeuwin Current, a warm ocean current flowing down the west coast of Australia;
• the Leeuwin Triplefin (Norfolkia leeuwin), a species of small fish of the Tripterygiidae family;
• Leeuwin, a short-lived literary journal published in Western Australia by Willem Siebenhaar in 1910.