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Home to the world's largest population of quokkas, the small, perpetually smiling marsupials that have made it famous, Rottnest Island lies about nineteen kilometres off the coast near Perth in Western Australia. To the Whadjuk Noongar people it is Wadjemup. That Aboriginal name means, roughly, the place across the water where the spirits are. The island was joined to the mainland until rising seas cut it off thousands of years ago, and it had long been used for ceremony before the separation. ...