Denham
Denham is the administrative town for the Shire of Shark Bay, Western Australia. At the 2016 census, Denham had a population of 754. Located on the western coast of the Peron Peninsula 831 kilometres north of Perth, Denham is the westernmost publicly accessible town in Australia, and is named in honour of Captain Henry Mangles Denham of the Royal Navy, who charted Shark Bay in 1858.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 723 residents
- Description: town in Western Australia
- Also known as: “Denham, Western Australia”, “Denham, Western Australia, Australia”, and “Shark Bay”
Denham
- Category: locality
- Location: Shire of Shark Bay, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-25.9281° or 25° 55′ 41″ southLongitude
113.53722° or 113° 32′ 14″ eastPopulation
723Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
5P6M3GCP+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 253430867OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2061676Wikidata ID
Q992784
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Denham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دنهام”
- Asturian: “Denham”
- Cebuano: “Denham”
- Chinese: “德納姆 (西澳洲)”
- Chinese: “德纳姆 (西澳洲)”
- Dutch: “Denham (West-Australie)”
- Dutch: “Denham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دنهام”
- French: “Denham”
- German: “Denham”
- Italian: “Denham”
- Persian: “دنهام، استرالیای غربی”
- Polish: “Denham (Australia)”
- Polish: “Denham”
- Slovenian: “Denham”
- Spanish: “Denham”
- Swedish: “Denham, Western Australia”
- Swedish: “Denham”
- “Denham”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Denham”. Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0.