History
The first European to discover the area was the French Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux in 1792 and he named it Cap Arride; Matthew Flinders anglicized the name in 1892 and the park took its name from this feature.
Pioneer graziers arrived in the area in the 1870s and the ruins of homesteads, dams and buildings as well as gravesites can be found near Pine Hill and Thomas Fishery.
Read more about this topic: Cape Arid National Park
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