Sandpatch, Western Australia

Sandpatch
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Coordinates:
Country	Australia
State	Western Australia
LGA	City of Albany
Location	388 km (241 mi) SE of Perth 10 km (6.2 mi) SE of Denmark 40 km (25 mi) W of Albany
Government
• State electorate	Albany
• Federal division	O'Connor
Population
• Total
Postcode	6330
Localities around Sandpatch Elleker Cuthbert Robinson Elleker Sandpatch Torndirrup Southern Ocean Torndirrup

Sandpatch is a suburb of the City of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, located along the Southern Ocean. In the east, it borders the locality of Torndirrup and Torndirrup National Park. Sandpatch is the location of the Albany Wind Farm.

Sandpatch is on the traditional land of the Minang people of the Noongar nation.

In the late 1870s, the Albany Sand Patch, a set of four sand dunes, were identified as a hazard to the Princess Royal Harbour, with the possibility of it gradually filling up the harbour being feared. The sand patch started at the shore and extended 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland to the west, but its extend into the harbour could also be seen at low tide. Using prison labour, a barrier made from stakes and brushwood was constructed to prevent the sand from moving further into the harbour. Once the barrier was installed, seeds were sown. Despite setbacks in the form of only certain types of plants thriving in the sandy environment and other dying, like 8,000 trees planted in 1883, of which none survived, the problem was considered under control by 1886.