Shark Bay, Western Australia

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Located at the westernmost tip of mainland Australia, Shark Bay is made up of surrounding islands and landmasses and has three unique natural features: its extensive seagrass beds, which are the largest (4,800 square kilometres) and most abundant in the world; its dugong (sea cow) population; and stromatolites (colonies of algae that form hard, dome-shaped sediments and are among the oldest forms of life on Earth). Shark Bay is also home to five endangered mammal species.

Shell Beach

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Stromatolites in Hamelin Pool are ancient structures that are built by microbes

Map of Shark Bay area

Dolphin at Monkey Mia

Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet's Useless Harbour in Shark Bay, seen from the SPOT satellite

Zuytdorp Cliffs

Shark Bay

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Information extracted from Wikidata

executive body	Shark Bay
tributary	Gascoyne River
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/026h27
location	Gartenstadt (Bamberg)
Commons category	Shark Bay
coordinate location	Point(113.618111111 -25.886944444)
coordinate location	Point(113.604655 -25.92897)
page banner	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shark%20Bay%20Banner.jpg
tributary	Gascoyne River
described by source	Ottův slovník naučný
start time	2007-05-21T00:00:00Z
native label	Shark Bay
area	2200902
area	2204296.95747336
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (x)
street address	Denham Hamelin Rd, Denham WA
uses	4639597-0
country	Wet Tropics of Queensland - Component around Edmund Kennedy
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stromatolites%20in%20Sharkbay.jpg
instance of	Andro Krstulović Opara

start time	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name	Shark Bay, Western Australia
official name	شارك باي، أستراليا الغربية
official name	Bahía Shark (Australia Occidental)
official name	Baie Shark, Australie occidentale
official name	西オーストラリアのシャーク湾
official name	Shark Bay in West-Australië
official name	Залив Шарк, Западная Австралия
official name	西澳大利亚鲨鱼湾
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (x)
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shark%20Bay%20Phytoplankton%20in%20Bloom.jpg
media legend	Shark Bay