Shark Bay Marine Park

The Shark Bay Marine National Park (English: Shark Bay Marine Park; German: Shark Bay Marine Park ) is located on the Shark Bay, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Marine Park is located in Western Australia about 800 km north of Perth. In the bay the small town of Denham is located on one of the peninsulas; the nearest large city is 331 km away Carnarvon. The Shark Bay Marine National Park, a unique underwater world, with about 4000 square kilometers, the world's largest protected marine area and the largest world-famous sea grass area with 12 species of seagrass plants. About one- third of the entire Shark Bay, which is about 7000 km ², is to be covered with sea grasses that provide shelter and food for many animals.

Name

The name Shark Bay was awarded by the explorer William Dampier, who visited the area in 1699. This name suggests that sharks swim in a large scale there. Although they occur, but are rare, because living in the 9 to 10 meters deep bay especially dolphins. Living Wild dolphins come up to the beach at Monkey Mia, the partially located in the reserve. They are tame and can be in shallow water by tourists feed them.

Location

The coastline of the entire bay is more than 1,500 kilometers. The marine park is bounded on the north approximately by the Cape Inscription and Gudrun wreck. In the south of the park extends to the shores of Tamala Homestead. A separate reserve, which is located within the Shark Bay Marine Nation Park in the south and is particularly protected, is located in the south of Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve. In this area today extremely rare stromatolites, which have existed since about 3 ½ billion years to live. It is one of the oldest forms of life on earth, which are only a few places on Earth. In Shark Bay, they have survived because here the salt content so high is about twice as in the open ocean. Because of this extreme salinity they had no natural enemies and were able to build their biofilm.

Flora and Fauna

In Shark Bay Marine National Park are sea turtles, dolphins, rays, whales and dugong, a species of manatees. This population of dugongs is estimated at 16,000 copies, making it one of the largest collection of these rare species worldwide. In certain areas, may seek to protect the dugong not be driven with motor-driven boats, and in the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve fishing is prohibited.

In the bay there are numerous fish species such as the red snapper, and some species from the groups of crustaceans and cnidarians.

The water in the bay is very salty ( hyperhalin ), so it can thrive only certain plant species, such as the twelve kinds of seaweed. In this environment, cockles grew ( Fragum erugatum ) - at Shell Beach 45 km southeast of Denham to such an extent that they formed a rock layer along the L' Haridon Bight of about 110 km in length. Once the reserve has been designated, the rock was not allowed to be dismantled for the purpose of masonry construction.

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