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It is located in the northwest of Western Australia, and consists of the local government areas of Carnarvon, Exmouth, Shark Bay and Upper Gascoyne. The Gascoyne has about 600 km (370 mi) of Indian Ocean coastline; extends inland about 500 km (310 mi); and has an area of 135,073.8 km 2 (52,152.3 sq mi), [1] including islands.
Located 500 km (310 mi) east of the Australian coastal town of Bermagui, Gascoyne Seamount is the southernmost and youngest significant seamount of the Tasmantid Seamount Chain. This is an underwater mountain range extending some 1,300 km (810 mi) to the north. [ 1 ]
Gascoyne is an interim Australian bioregion located in Western Australia. [1] It has an area of 180,752.57 square kilometres (69,788.96 sq mi). [ 2 ] Together with Murchison bioregion to the south, it constitutes the Western Australian Mulga shrublands ecoregion , as assessed by the World Wildlife Fund .
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) .
The original homestead was built in 1906 and is about 9 kilometres (6 mi) west of the current one and was itself placed on the heritage list in 2013. [4] It is a simple stone building with a corrugated iron roof. Some bush timber posts remain of the verandah on the western side. The graves of both Mary Comtesse and Mary Jane Cream are located ...
Gascoyne is one of the nine regions of Western Australia established under the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993. Western Australia portal Subcategories
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 ...
HMAS Gascoyne (M 85), named after the Gascoyne River, was the fourth of six Huon-class minehunters built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and remained in service until 2024. Built by a joint partnership between Australian Defence Industries (ADI) and Intermarine SpA , Gascoyne was constructed at ADI's Newcastle shipyard, and entered service ...