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Shark Bay (Malgana: Gathaagudu, lit. 'two waters') is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia . The 23,000-square-kilometre (8,900 sq mi) [ 1 ] area is located approximately 800 kilometres (500 mi) north of Perth , on the westernmost point of the Australian continent.
The Shark Bay Marine Park is a protected marine park located within the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Shark Bay, in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.The 748,725-hectare (1,850,140-acre) [2] marine park is situated over 800 kilometres (500 mi) north of Perth and 400 kilometres (250 mi) north of Geraldton.
Francois Peron National Park is a national park on the Peron Peninsula in Western Australia, 726 kilometres (451 mi) north of Perth, and located within the boundary of the Shark Bay World Heritage area.
Perth, W.A : CALM for the National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority. "Shark Bay marine reserves draft management plan 1994"—Cover. Thomson, Carolyn (1997) Discovering Shark Bay Marine Park and Monkey Mia Como, W.A. Department of Conservation and Land Management. ISBN 0-7309-6854-5; Western Australia & Bancroft, K & Davidson, J (2002).
This is a list of the islands in the Shark Bay area of the Gascoyne Region of Western Australia, (between 24°30′0″ and 26°30′0″ S, and 112°0′0″ and 114°30′0″ E). There are approximately 30 small islands in Shark Bay; all are within the World Heritage Reserve. [1] The largest is Dirk Hartog Island.
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Denham is the administrative town for the Shire of Shark Bay, Western Australia.At the 2016 census, Denham had a population of 754. [3] Located on the western coast of the Peron Peninsula 831 kilometres (516 mi) north of Perth, Denham is the westernmost publicly accessible town in Australia, and is named in honour of Captain Henry Mangles Denham of the Royal Navy, who charted Shark Bay in 1858.
Shell Beach is a beach in the Shark Bay region of Western Australia, located 45 kilometres (28 mi) south-east of Denham. Situated on the northeastern side of the Taillefer Isthmus along the L'Haridon Bight , the beach is covered with shells for a 60-kilometre (37 mi) stretch to a depth of 7–10 metres (23–33 ft).