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The area was given the name Shark Bay by the English explorer William Dampier, [4] on 7 August 1699. [5] Shark Bay was also visited by Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn in 1772, Nicolas Baudin from 1801 to 1803 and Louis de Freycinet in 1818. [6] Europeans, mostly pastoralists, settled in Shark Bay during the 1860s to 1870s. [6] Pearling developed ...
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 Shire of Shark Bay is a local government area of Western Australia in the Gascoyne region. It has an area of 25,423 square kilometres (9,816 sq mi) and a population of about 950. It has an area of 25,423 square kilometres (9,816 sq mi) and a population of about 950.
Hamelin Pool is the eastern major waters within Shark Bay, separated from the western area by the Peron Peninsula, with a smaller water body just adjacent to its northern border with Faure Island - L'Haridon Bight the juncture being defined by Petit Point. At the northern edge of the Hamelin Pool area is the Wooramel Seagrass Bank. [3]
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.
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 ...
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 ...