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The bay is located in the transition zone between three major ... include the Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery Centre in Denham which provides interactive ...
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.
The Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is a protected marine nature reserve located in the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The 127,000-hectare (310,000-acre) [ 1 ] nature reserve boasts the most diverse and abundant examples of living marine stromatolites in the world, monuments to life on ...
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.
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.
Map of the Shark Bay region Copy of Dirk Hartog's plate in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Cape Inscription lighthouse, c. 1910. Dirk Hartog Island is an island off the Gascoyne coast of Western Australia, within the Shark Bay World Heritage Area. It is about 80 kilometres (50 miles) long and between 3 and 15 kilometres (2 and 9 miles) wide and is ...
It is the location of former Pastoral leases Peron and Nanga stations, and is the main location of land access to points within the World Heritage site. The northern area contains the Francois Peron National Park. It is surrounded by the Shark Bay Marine Park and its lower southeast part is adjacent to the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve.
Shell Beach and Shark Bay The cockle shells of Shell Beach 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 ...