Peron Peninsula is a long narrow peninsula located in the Shark Bay World Heritage site in Western Australia, at about 25°51' S longitude and 113°30' E latitude. It is some 130 kilometres (81 mi) long, running north-northwesterly, located east of Henri Freycinet Harbour and west of Havre Hamelin and Faure Island. It is the largest of the Shark Bay peninsulas. Significant settlements include Denham and Monkey Mia. An airport (Shark Bay Airport) is located there.
It is the location of former Pastoral leases Peron and Nanga stations.
It is the main location of land access to points within the World Heritage site. The northern area contains the Francois Peron National Park. It is surrounded by the Shark Bay Marine Park and its lower southeast part is adjacent to the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve.
The Taillefer Isthmus, the narrowest section of the peninsula, is between Nanga and Goulet Bluff - which has Shell Beach located on the eastern side which lies in the L'Haridon Bight.
The northernmost point is Cape Peron which has a namesake[1] further south in the metropolitan Perth coastal area.
PeronPeninsulaPeronPeninsula is a long narrow peninsula located in the Shark Bay World Heritage site in Western Australia, at about 25°51' S longitude...
Francois Peron National Park is a national park on the PeronPeninsula in Western Australia, 726 km north of Perth, and located within the boundary of...
considerable number of aboriginal midden sites have been found, especially on PeronPeninsula and Dirk Hartog Island which provide evidence of some of the foods...
in April 2019. Successful reintroductions have also occurred on the PeronPeninsula in Western Australia as a part of the Western Shield program, and at...
Monkey Mia Airport (IATA: MJK, ICAO: YSHK) is an airport located on the PeronPeninsula within the Shark Bay World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region serving...
to Currawinya. Successful reintroductions have also occurred onto PeronPeninsula in Western Australia as a part of Western Shield. Successful reintroductions...
Lucien Everard Koch and known only the holotype, a male specimen from PeronPeninsula, Shark Bay, WA. The adults are diurnal flying insects, and the larvae...
pastoral lease and nature reserve, east of the Francois Peron National Park on the PeronPeninsula, in Shark Bay, Western Australia. It lies in line with...
IUCN Rock parrot N. petrophila (Gould, 1841) LC IUCN Spencer Gulf, PeronPeninsula, and the southwest coast of Western Australia Orange-bellied parrot...
Australian places still have French names today from Baudin's expedition (PeronPeninsula, Depuch Island, Geographe Bay, Cape Naturaliste, Cape Levillain, Boullanger...
for auction by the owner James Nicholas, who also owned Croydon and PeronPeninsula Stations. The station occupied an area of 153,000 acres (61,917 ha)...
Isthmus (French: Isthme Taillefer) is an Australian isthmus linking PeronPeninsula to the coast of Western Australia in the Gascoyne region. Its western...
Point Geographe Bay Lancelin Island Middle Island (Iles du Milieu) PeronPeninsula Recherche Archipelago (L’Archipel de la Recherche) Only places with...
major waters within Shark Bay, separated from the western area by the PeronPeninsula, with a smaller water body just adjacent to its northern border with...
database. Cape Clairault Cape Mentelle Hamelin Bay Edward Duyker François Péron: An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager, Miegunyah/MUP, Melb., 2006,...
Goulet Bluff is a point on the western side of the PeronPeninsula in the Shark Bay World Heritage Site that acts as an important marker between the Denham...
Australian Planning Commission, ISBN 978-0-7309-5357-9 Edward Duyker François Péron: An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager, Miegunyah/MUP, Melb., 2006,...
was sometimes locally common, begin with a specimen obtained at the PeronPeninsula during the Uranie expedition led by Louis de Freycinet in 1818. John...
square miles) from the bounded by the Indian Ocean to the west from the PeronPeninsula in Shark Bay up to the North West Cape. The Pilbara shrublands lie...
Australian plant genus Guichenotia. Guichenault Point, a promontory on PeronPeninsula in Shark Bay, was named after him. Guichenot is the more commonly used...
the west of the PeronPeninsula. It has a significantly larger number of islands than Hamelin Pool, and has a number of smaller peninsulas known as "prongs"...
Point Geographe Bay Lancelin Island Middle Island (Iles du Milieu) PeronPeninsula Recherche Archipelago (L’Archipel de la Recherche) Only places with...
Point Geographe Bay Lancelin Island Middle Island (Iles du Milieu) PeronPeninsula Recherche Archipelago (L’Archipel de la Recherche) Only places with...
north-western Yalgoo and northern Geraldton Sandplains bioregions, from the PeronPeninsula to Zuytdorp. The type locality is Nanga Station, near Shark Bay. Rix...
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