Gascoyne
The Gascoyne is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia. It's hot, dry and sparsely populated, with only 9277 residents in 2019 over its 135,000 sq km - half of them in Carnarvon, the main town.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Shark Bay and Ningaloo Coast.
Shark Bay
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Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in Gascoyne, Western Australia. The main town is Denham with the resort village of Monkey Mia 25 km northwest. The area is well-developed for tourism and best known for its marine life, such as dolphins, turtles and dugongs, and its desert nature reserves.
Ningaloo Coast
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Ningaloo Reef or Ningaloo Coast is a marine park and UNESCO World Heritage Site lying off the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The reef extends 260 km from Exmouth to Red Bluff near Carnarvon.
Coral Bay
Coral Bay is a small beach resort town in the Gascoyne Region of Western Australia, with a population in 2016 of 207. The big attraction is Ningaloo Reef, a 300-km fringing reef with its crest about 1 km offshore in this area, enclosing the placid lagoon of Bill's Bay.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Carnarvon and Exmouth.
Carnarvon
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Carnarvon is a town in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, with a population in 2016 of 4426. Once a port for the shipping of livestock, it's now a fruit & veg growing area and has a small fishing industry.
Exmouth
Exmouth is a town in Western Australia, midway between Perth and Broome, with a resident population of 2,806 in 2021. The main reasons to visit are to dive Ningaloo Reef, and to see Cape Range National Park.
Cape Range National Park
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Cape Range National Park is in the coastal hills 50 km from Exmouth in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. It is one of the main ways to access Ningaloo Marine Park.
Mount Augustus National Park
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Mount Augustus National Park is a remote national park in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The one feature the national park protects is Mount Augustus, which is twice the size of Uluru.
Red Bluff
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Quobba and Gnarlaroo are farming ranges on the coast of Gascoyne Region in Western Australia. The coast has a series of attractive natural features and camping areas, with Red Bluff roughly midway between the two homesteads.
Gascoyne
- Type: Regions of Western Australia
- Description: administrative region of Western Australia
- Also known as: “Gascoyne region of Western Australia” and “Gascoyne, Western Australia”
- Location: Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude of center
-22° or 22° southLongitude of center
115° eastWikidata ID
Q1495083
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Gascoyne” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gascoyne”
- Central Kurdish: “گاسکوان”
- Chinese: “加斯科因”
- Dutch: “Gascoyne”
- Estonian: “Gascoyne”
- French: “Gascoyne”
- Georgian: “გასკოინი”
- German: “Gascoyne”
- Hebrew: “אזור גסקוין”
- Hebrew: “גאסקוין, אוסטרליה המערבית”
- Hebrew: “גסקויין, אוסטרליה המערבית”
- Hebrew: “גסקוין, אוסטרליה המערבית”
- Hebrew: “גסקוין”
- Indonesian: “Gascoyne”
- Italian: “Gascoyne”
- Japanese: “ガスコイン”
- Korean: “개스코인”
- Lithuanian: “Gaskoinas (regionas)”
- Lithuanian: “Gaskoinas”
- Persian: “گاسکوین”
- Polish: “Region Gascoyne”
- Portuguese: “Gascoyne”
- Russian: “Гаскойн (округ Австралии)”
- Russian: “Гаскойн”
- Spanish: “Gascoyne”
- Swedish: “Gascoyne”
- Turkish: “Gascoyne”
- “Gascoyne”
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