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Gascoyne Junction is now a centre for mining, pastoral and desert merino fine wool industries, and serves as a gateway to nearby attractions such as Mount Augustus National Park and Kennedy Range National Park. The town contains the Shire of Upper Gascoyne Council Office, the Junction Pub and Tourist Park, Gascoyne Junction Community Resource ...
At the time of the national park's creation, Kennedy Range National Park, also on Yingkarta country, was expanded and also placed under joint management, with the intention of having four Yingkarta rangers employed and based at Gascoyne Junction. [1] A Pimbee Conservation Park with a size of 99,000 hectares (240,000 acres) was proposed in 2019 ...
The Shire of Upper Gascoyne is a local government area in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, inland from Carnarvon and about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north of the state capital, Perth. The Shire has an area of 57,939 square kilometres (22,370 sq mi), much of which is uninhabited land or sparsely vegetated sheep station country, and its ...
As of 2024, 19 places are heritage-listed in the Shire of Upper Gascoyne, [1] of which one is on the State Register of Heritage Places, the Upper Gascoyne Road Board Office in Gascoyne Junction. [ 2 ]
The Gascoyne has the lowest population of any region of Western Australia, with about 9,277 people. [1] The majority of residents are non-Aboriginal people born in Australia (74%). Just over half live in Carnarvon (4,426) where Aboriginal residents account for 18% of the population. Other centres are Exmouth, Denham, Gascoyne Junction and Coral ...
Coral Bay is located on the North West Cape of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. It sits adjacent to Ningaloo Reef, the world's largest fringing reef system, which covers 604,500 hectares (6,045 km 2) of the eastern Indian Ocean and stretches over 300 kilometres (190 mi) along the coast of Western Australia. [7]
North West Coastal Highway is the coastal route through Western Australia's remote north-west. From the Mid West city of Geraldton, the highway heads north 50 kilometres (31 mi) to the small town of Northampton, and another 425 kilometres (264 mi) to Carnarvon, the only large settlement along the route.
The Gascoyne Marine Park (formerly known as the Gascoyne Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park offshore of Western Australia, west of the Cape Range Peninsula. The marine park covers an area of 81,766 km 2 (31,570 sq mi) and shares its far eastern boundary with the Ningaloo Marine Park (Commonwealth waters) .