Location Name - Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve
Hamelin Pool Road
Hamelin Pool 6532

County/Council: Shire of Shark Bay
Region: Gascoyne
Location ID: 10083152


 
Categories:
BEACHES / COASTAL - *
BEACHES / COASTAL - Beaches / Shorelines
BEACHES / COASTAL - Boardwalks / Piers / Jetties
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PARKS & GARDENS - National Parks
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HERITAGE - *
UNESCO - *

Description:
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 nature reserve boasts the most diverse and abundant examples of living marine stromatolites, or 'living fossils', in the world, monuments to life on Earth over 3,500 million years ago.

Jurisdictions::
UNESCO, Shire of Shark Bay, DBCA

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