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Eighty Mile Beach at sunset. Eighty Mile Beach also spelled Eighty-mile Beach or 80-mile Beach, and formerly called 90-mile Beach, lies along the north-west coast of Western Australia about half-way between the towns of Broome and Port Hedland.
1,200 head of cattle from the station were loaded at Eighty Mile Beach in 1954 onto the LST landing craft Wan Kuo in the first shipment of its kind from Western Australia. The cattle were penned in batches of 15 along with about 10 tons of feed in readiness to be shipped to Manila. [15]
Pardoo homestead, 2008 Eighty Mile Beach. Pardoo Station is a pastoral lease, formerly a sheep station, and now a cattle station approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Port Hedland and 121 kilometres (75 mi) north of Marble Bar, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
Eighty Mile Beach: Australia: Oceania: Contender for the longest uninterrupted sandy seashore in the world (disputed; see coastline paradox) 230 kilometres (140 mi) [5] [6] Cox's Bazar Beach: Bangladesh: Asia: Longest natural sea beach in the world: 120 kilometres (75 mi) [7] Padre Island National Seashore: United States: North America
The largest beach ultramarathon race in the world is held on this beach, the Cassino Ultra Race. The marathon is a long-distance race that sees participants traveling a distance of 230km over the sand, though it can also be run in the 73K and 135K modality. [ 14 ]
The Ningaloo Marine Park (formerly known as the Ningaloo Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park offshore of Western Australia, and west of the Ningaloo Coast.
The Montebello Island Marine Park (area 58,331 ha) is located off the northwest coast of Western Australia, about 1,600 km north of Perth, [2] and 120 km west of Dampier. [3]
The site was designated mainly because its value as waterbird habitat was recognised as being of international importance for waders (based on supporting at least 1% of the flyway population) for 14 species – double-banded plover, red-kneed dotterel, grey plover, Pacific golden plover, banded stilt, red-necked avocet, pied oystercatcher, curlew sandpiper, red-necked stint, sharp-tailed ...