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Shark Bay
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bay of the Indian Ocean in Western Australia
Key facts
- Location
- Gascoyne region, Western Australia , Australia
- Criteria
- Natural: vii, viii, ix, x
- Inscription
- 1991 (15th Session )
- Area
- 2,200,902 ha (5,438,550 acres)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet's Useless Harbour in Shark Bay, seen from the SPOT satellite Map of Shark Bay area Zuytdorp Cliffs Shark Bay (Malgana: Gathaagudu, lit. 'two waters') is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The 23,000-square-kilometre (8,900 sq mi) area is located approximately 800 kilometres (500 mi) north of Perth, on the westernmost point of the Australian continent.
UNESCO's listing of Shark Bay as a World Heritage Site reads:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shark Bay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.