Esperance ( ( )) is a town in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, on the Southern Ocean coastline approximately east-southeast of the state capital, Perth and south of Kalgoorlie.
The urban population of Esperance was 12,003 at June 2018. which entered Esperance Bay in December 1792 to shelter from heavy seas and gale force winds.
The French language word means "hope", in the sense of an expectation of something probable, as opposed to a mere wish for something uncertain (ie ). So, eg, in mathematics, the term is the French language equivalent of the English language term "expected value".
In the Wudjari language of the local Aboriginal people, who form part of the Noongar cultural group and live at its southern edge, the name of the area is ( ). According to the Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation (ETNTAC):