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	Australia - Shark Bay, Western Australia (1991)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY I NEW SOUTH WALES I TASMANIA I VICTORIA

QUEENSLAND I SOUTH AUSTRALIA I NORTHERN AUSTRALIA I WESTERN AUSTRALIA

	Australia World Heritage Sites
	- Great Barrier Reef (1981) - Kakadu National Park (1981, 1987, 1992)
	- Fraser Island (1992) - Willandra Lakes Region (1981) - Lord Howe Island Group (1982)
	- Tasmanian Wilderness (1982, 1989) - Gondwana Rainforest of Australia (1987, 1994)
	- Uluru-Kata Tiuta National Park (1987, 1994) - Wet Tropics of Queensland (1988)
	- Shark Bay, Western Australia (1991) - Heard and McDonald Islands (1997)
	- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) (1994) - Macquarie Island (1997)
	- Greater Blue Mountains Area (2000) - Purnululu National Park (2003)
	- Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (2004) - Sydney Opera House (2007)

Shark Bay is a world heritage site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. It is an area centred approximately on over 800 kilometres north of Perth, on the westernmost point of Australia. An expedition led by Dirk Hartog visited the area in 1616, becoming the second group of Europeans known to have visited Australia.[1] Shark Bay was named by William Dampier, in 1699.

The area has a population of fewer than 1,000 people and a coastline of over 1,500 kilometres. The half dozen small communities making up this population occupy less than 1% of the total area.

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