Shark Bay Area

Author

Heritage Council

Place Number

12412

Location

Shark Bay Denham

Location Details

22,000 sq km, inc marine & estuarine areas of the bay, together with the peninsulas & islands projecting into it & adjacent areas of mainland in coastal strip along east coast & region immediately to the south. It includes Bernier Island, Dorre Island, Dirk Hartog Island, the Peron Peninsula, and the Freycinet Estuary

Other Name(s)

Includes Bernier Island, Dorre Island
includes Dirk Hartog Island, the Peron Peninsula and Freycinet Estuary
Shark Bay Area

Local Government

Shark Bay

Region

Gascoyne

Construction Date

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents
World Heritage List YES 13 Dec 1991

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management
Category
Register of the National Estate Permanent 26 Oct 1999
Register of the National Estate Registered 26 Oct 1999

Child Places

  • 11722 Grave of Onslow Thomas Carmody
  • 11734 Denham-Hamelin Pool Telegraph Line
  • 11730 Tamala Homestead, Outbuildings and Cottage Ruins
  • 11727 Hamelin Station Homestead & Outbuildings
  • 11735 Nanga No.1 Bore
  • 11736 Shipwrecks
  • 11724 Shell Quarry
  • 07402 Dirk Hartog Island
  • 11726 L'Haridon Bight Shell Spits
  • 11723 Flagpole
  • 15268 Uranie Land Camp
  • 11729 Carrarang Lifeboat (ruins)
  • 02370 Pioneer Museum
  • 11725 Point Petit Bore
  • 03606 Peron Homestead
  • 11728 Carrarang Homestead
  • 04053 Wolgedda Pioneer Cottage
  • 11720 Hamelin Pool Post Office, Post Master's Quarters & Telegraph Station (fmr)

State Heritage Office library entries

Library Id Title Medium Year Of Publication
9864 Summary document for the Shark Bay world Heritage Property strategic plan 2008 - 2020. Report 2008
11856 The Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station Electronic 1994
657 Shark Bay marine reserves : management plan 1996 - 2006. Report 1994
5663 Shark Bay terrestrial reserves : management plan 2000-2009. Report 2000
9998 Shark Bay Terrestrial Reserves and proposed reserve additions. Management plan number 75 of 2012. Electronic 2012
2063 Shark Bay region plan. Report 1987
9863 Shark Bay world heritage property strategic plan 2008 - 2020 Report 2008
9120 Australia's world heritage. Book 2008
7739 Olde Shark Bay re-creation of Freshwater Camp: interpretation and conservation management plan. Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} 2004
11384 Australia's National Heritage Report 2010
7751 The buccaneer's bell. Book 2006
4840 Guidance for the assessment of environmental factors (in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1986) : assessment of development proposals in Shark Bay World Heritage Property : no. 49 : draft : June 2000. Report 2000
870 Heritage assessment of the Peron Homestead and Station Pecinct in the Francois Peron National Park Shark Bay World Heritage Area. Heritage Study {Other} 1995
658 Flora of the Shark Bay world heritage area and environs. Report 1995

Place Type

Landscape

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Present Use PARK\RESERVE Park\Reserve
Original Use PARK\RESERVE Park\Reserve

Creation Date

25 Sep 1998

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

31 Dec 2016

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