L'Haridon Bight

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L'Haridon Bight is one of the bays on the eastern side of the Peron Peninsula in the Shark Bay World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. [1]

Peron Peninsula

Peron Peninsula is a long narrow peninsula located in the Shark Bay World Heritage site in Western Australia, at about 25°51' S longitude and 113°30' E latitude. It is some 130 kilometres (81 mi) long, running north-northwesterly, located east of Henri Freycinet Harbour and west of Havre Hamelin and Faure Island. It is the largest of the Shark Bay peninsulas. Significant settlements include Denham and Monkey Mia. An airport is located there. It is the location of former Pastoral leases Peron and Nanga stations. It 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.

Gascoyne region of Western Australia

The Gascoyne region is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia. It is located in the north west 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 138,000 km2 (53,000 sq mi), including islands.

Western Australia State in Australia

Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres, and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11 percent of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

At its southern end lies Shell Beach, which is part of the very narrow Taillefer Isthmus that leads to the Peron Peninusula to the north. Its mouth at the north is just south west of Faure Island, where two points define its northern reach - Petit Point in the eastern part, and Dubaut Point to the west on the Peron Peninsula. [2] It is one of locations in the Shark Bay where the water is hypersaline, [3] and is also where a marine reserve exists. [4]

Faure Island island in Shark Bay, Western Australia

Faure Island is a 58 km2 island pastoral lease and nature reserve, east of the Francois Peron National Park on the Peron Peninsula, in Shark Bay, Western Australia. It lies in line with the Monkey Mia resort to the west, and the Wooramel River on the eastern shore of Shark Bay. It is surrounded by the Shark Bay Marine Park and Shark Bay World Heritage Site and, as the Faure Island Sanctuary, is owned and managed by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC).

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Notes

  1. ↑ Shark Bay (W.A. : Shire). Council (1992). In Consultative environmental review statement : expansion of reserve no. 41076 (quarry - shell grit) L'Haridon Bight Shark Bay. Shire of Shark Bay, Denham, W.A
  2. ↑ (1992) Western Australia. Environmental Protection Authority. Expansion of Reserve 41076 (quarry-shell grit) L'Haridon Bight, Shark Bay, Shire of Shark Bay : report and recommendations of the Environmental Protection Authority. Bulletin, 1030-0120. ISBN   0-7309-4771-8
  3. ↑ Woo, Lai Mun & University of Western Australia.Centre for Water Research (2005). In Summer circulation and water masses along the West Australian coast.
  4. ↑ '12. Lharidon Bight Sanctuary Zone. Scale [ca. 1:350,000]', in Western Australia. Dept. of Environment and Conservation & Western Australia. Dept. of Fisheries (2010). In Shark Bay Marine Park and Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve marine parks - WA's submerged wonders : information guide. Dept. of Environment and Conservation : Dept. of Fisheries, [Perth, W.A.]

Coordinates: 26°05′S113°47′E / 26.083°S 113.783°E / -26.083; 113.783

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