Local Government
Shark Bay
Region
Gascoyne
L'Haridon Bight Shark Bay
Shark Bay
Gascoyne
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Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 12 Dec 1997 | Category 4 |
The L'Haridon Bight Shell Spit has high aesthetic significance and makes a high contribution to the landform of the area.
This is a natural landform formed by white shells on the western side of the tip of Point Petit.
Named by the Baudin expedition (1801-1803) after Francois Etienne L'Haridon doctor on the Geographe'. (Source: 'Shark Bay - The Map', Shire of Shark Bay.) Lighters called in at these spits and bagged shell grit in the 1930s.
Integrity: High Degree
Good
Landscape
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