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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) [ 1 ] area is located approximately 800 kilometres (500 mi) north of Perth , on the westernmost point of the Australian continent.
In a native title determination on 4 December 2018, the Malgana were recognised as having rights to roughly 28,800 square kilometres (11,100 sq mi) of land and waters in the World Heritage Site area around Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region. The decision was handed down by Justice Bernard Murphy. The decision came two decades after the first ...
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 ...
Dirk Hartog Island, Shark Bay: Denham: Peron No. 1 Bore: 11929: Peron Streetation: Shark Bay: Shark Bay Area: 12412: Shark Bay: Denham: Includes Bernier Island, Dorre Island, Shark Bay Area, includes Dirk Hartog Island, the Peron Peninsula and Freycinet Estuary: Shark Bay Honour Roll, foyer Heritage Resort: 14094: Knights Terrace: Denham ...
[This quote needs a citation] He made landfall at an island off the coast of Shark Bay, Western Australia, which is now called Dirk Hartog Island after him. His was the second recorded European expedition to land on the Australian continent, having been preceded by Willem Janszoon in 1606, but the first to do so on the western coastline. [3]
Mia is the local Aboriginal term for home or shelter, while the Monkey part of the name is thought to derive from a pearling boat called Monkey that anchored at the now Monkey Mia in the late 19th century, during the days when pearling was an industry in the region.
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 .
Norman Tindale estimated the Nhanda's tribal territories to cover some 6,300 square miles (16,000 km 2), stretching from Willigabi (Wilugabi) northwards along the coast to the vicinity of Northampton and Shark Bay, Hamelin Pool and Yaringa. [4] Their northern neighbours were the Malgana and the Nokaan, while on their southern border were the ...