Shark Bay

Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in , 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.
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  • Bay
  • Description: bay of the Indian Ocean in Western Australia
  • Also known as
    “Shark Bay, W.A.”
    “Shark Bay, Western Australia”
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Shark Bay

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Latitude
-25.5215° or 25° 31′ 17″ south
Longitude
113.754° or 113° 45′ 15″ east
Open location code
5P6MFQH3+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3020493855
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2061677
Wiki­data ID
Q217487

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Shark Bay” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Շարկի ծովածոց”
  • Belarusian: “Заліў Шарк”
  • Belarusian: “Шарк”
  • Bengali: “হাঙরোপসাগর”
  • Bulgarian: “Залив на акулите”
  • Catalan: “Badia de Shark”
  • Catalan: “Badia dels Taurons”
  • Cebuano: “Shark Bay (luuk sa Awstralya, State of Western Australia, lat -25,47, long 113,49)”
  • Cebuano: “Shark Bay”
  • Chinese: “鯊魚灣”
  • Chinese: “鲨鱼湾”
  • Croatian: “Shark Bay”
  • Croatian: “Zaljev morskih pasa”
  • Czech: “Žraločí zátoka”
  • Dotyali: “सार्क बे”
  • Dutch: “Shark Bay”
  • Dutch: “Sharkbaai”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝarka Golfo”
  • Finnish: “Shark Bay”
  • French: “Baie des Chiens-Marins”
  • French: “baie Shark”
  • French: “Baie Shark”
  • French: “Shark Bay”
  • Georgian: “შარკ-ბეი”
  • Georgian: “შარკის ყურე”
  • German: “Shark Bay”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος των καρχαριών”
  • Hebrew: “Shark bay”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ הכרישים”
  • Indonesian: “Shark Bay”
  • Italian: “Baia degli Squali”
  • Italian: “Shark Bay”
  • Japanese: “シャーク湾”
  • Korean: “샤크만”
  • Lithuanian: “Ryklių įlanka”
  • Malayalam: “ഷാർക് ഉൾക്കടൽ”
  • Maltese: “Bajja tal-Klieb il-Baħar”
  • Maltese: “Shark Bay”
  • Mazanderani: “شارک دریامونا”
  • Mongolian: “Аварга загас булан”
  • Mongolian: “Шарк”
  • Nepali: “सार्क बे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shark Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shark Bay”
  • Norwegian: “Shark Bay”
  • Persian: “خلیج کوسه”
  • Polish: “Shark Bay”
  • Polish: “Sharks Bay”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Rekina”
  • Portuguese: “Baía Shark”
  • Russian: “Залив Шарк”
  • Russian: “Шарк-Бей”
  • Russian: “Шарк-Бэй”
  • Russian: “Шарк”
  • Serbian: “Залив ајкула”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zaljev morskih pasa”
  • Slovak: “Shark Bay”
  • Slovak: “Žraločia zátoka”
  • Slovenian: “Shark Bay”
  • Slovenian: “Zaliv morskih psov*”
  • Spanish: “Bahia Shark”
  • Spanish: “Bahía Shark”
  • Spanish: “Shark Bay, Western Australia”
  • Swedish: “Shark Bay”
  • Telugu: “షార్క్ బే, W.A.”
  • Telugu: “షార్క్ బే, పశ్చిమ ఆస్ట్రేలియా”
  • Telugu: “షార్క్ బే”
  • Thai: “อ่าว Shark”
  • Thai: “อ่าวชาร์ก”
  • Turkish: “Shark Bay, Batı Avustralya”
  • Turkish: “Shark Körfezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Затока Шарк”
  • Ukrainian: “Шарк бей”
  • Ukrainian: “Шарк-Бей”
  • Ukrainian: “Шарк”
  • Venetian: “Baja Shark”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Shark”
  • Yue Chinese: “鯊魚灣”

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