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The Best Attractions In Carnarvon

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Carnarvon is a coastal town situated approximately 900 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia. It lies at the mouth of the Gascoyne River on the Indian Ocean. The popular Shark Bay world heritage area lies to the south of the town and the Ningaloo Reef and the popular tourist town of Exmouth lie to the north. Within Carnarvon is the Mungullah Aboriginal Community. Inland, Carnarvon has strong links with the town of Gascoyne Junction and the Burringurrah Community. At the 2016 census, Carnarvon had a population of 4,426.
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  • 1. Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum Carnarvon
    The OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon, an Earth station in Australia was established to meet the need for more reliable and higher quality communications for NASA's Apollo Moon project. NASA contracted Australia's Overseas Telecommunications Commission to provide an earth station near Carnarvon, Western Australia to link the NASA tracking station in that area to the control centre in the USA, also contracting the COMSAT Corporation to launch three Intelsat-2 communications satellites.
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  • 3. OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon Carnarvon
    The OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon, an Earth station in Australia was established to meet the need for more reliable and higher quality communications for NASA's Apollo Moon project. NASA contracted Australia's Overseas Telecommunications Commission to provide an earth station near Carnarvon, Western Australia to link the NASA tracking station in that area to the control centre in the USA, also contracting the COMSAT Corporation to launch three Intelsat-2 communications satellites.
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  • 8. Kennedy Range National Park Carnarvon
    Kennedy Range National Park is a national park in Gascoyne region of Western Australia, approximately 830 kilometres north of Perth and about 150 km east of Carnarvon. Kennedy Range is found on the edge of the Gascoyne River catchment area and is a weathered plateau that extends for a distance of 150 km essentially forming a huge mesa. Spectacular sandstone cliffs can be found on the southern and eastern sides of the range which are dissected by steep canyons which have an elevation of up to 100 metres .The Range formed a natural border for two aboriginal peoples, the Maia and the Malgaru. Natural springs located on the edge of the ranges would have provided game to hunt and outcrops of chert would have provided stone for tools. Over 100 sites provide evidence that the traditional owners i...
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  • 12. Shark Bay Denham
    Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The 2,200,902-hectare area is located approximately 800 kilometres north of Perth, on the westernmost point of the Australian continent. UNESCO's official listing of Shark Bay as a World Heritage Site reads: Shark Bay’s waters, islands and peninsulas....have a number of exceptional natural features, including one of the largest and most diverse seagrass beds in the world. However it is for its stromatolites , that the property is most renowned. The property is also famous for its rich marine life including a large population of dugongs, and provides a refuge for a number of other globally threatened species.
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  • 13. Francois Peron National Park Denham
    Francois Peron National Park is a national park on the Peron Peninsula in Western Australia, 726 km north of Perth, and located within the boundary of the Shark Bay World Heritage area. The nearest towns to the park are Denham, which is found on the southern edge of the park and Carnarvon which is found about 80 kilometres to the north.
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