13-636: Francois Peron National Park is a national park on the Peron Peninsula in Western Australia , 726 kilometres (451 mi) 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 (50 mi) to the north. There is also an eponymous locality of
26-598: A National Park – through the purchase of Peron Station (Pastoral Lease 3114/761) in 1990. It is adjacent to and surrounded by the Shark Bay Marine Park to the west, north and east, and by the Denham to Monkey Mia road to the south. Picnic, boat launching and camping areas along the west coast of the Peninsula include: Peron Peninsula Peron Peninsula ( Malgana : Wulybidi )
39-517: A range of services, including reference, copying, and genealogical services, as well as consultancy and reader education. The Library is named after James Sykes Battye , the first State Librarian, who began the collection in the early 1900s. It was established in December 1956. Mollie Lukis and Margaret Medcalf were successors to Battye as Battye librarians, and their long service to the Library
52-557: Is a long narrow peninsula located in the Shark Bay World Heritage site in Western Australia , at about 25°51′S 113°30′E / 25.850°S 113.500°E / -25.850; 113.500 . 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 . Shark Bay Airport
65-659: Is located there. It is the location of former Pastoral leases Peron and Nanga stations, and 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
78-548: Is situated within the bounds of the earlier pastoral lease of the Peron Station. Locations from the French exploration era include: A pearling camp was established on the peninsula at Herald Bight in the 1880s and the remains of shells can still be found along the beach. Used as a sheep station from the early 1900s onwards the station was sold to the state government in 1990. It was gazetted on 8 January 1993 as
91-589: The Shire of Shark Bay , but the boundaries of the national park and the locality are not identical. Aboriginal Australians are the initial inhabitants of the area and have been living in it for over 26,000 years. The local peoples, who speak the Malgana language , call the area Wulyibidi . It is named after the French naturalist and explorer François Péron who was the zoologist aboard Nicolas Baudin 's 1801 and 1803 scientific expeditions to Western Australia, and
104-439: The 1900s artesian bores were sunk to provide a greater quantity and quality of water. The resulting water comes up hot (35–60 °C or 95–140 °F) and has high salt and mineral content. (available as a photocopy at Battye Library ) 26°06′22″S 113°40′02″E / 26.10611°S 113.66722°E / -26.10611; 113.66722 Battye Library The J S Battye Library (more properly known as
117-489: The J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History) is an arm of the State Library of Western Australia . It stores much of the state's historical records and original publications including books, newspapers, periodicals, maps, and ephemera, as well as oral history tapes, photographs and artworks, films and video, and non-government records which are kept in the library's Private Archives collection. The Library provides
130-695: The State and local government archives. The current administrative structure of the State Library has removed mention of the name of the library from the library catalogue and now refers to it as 3rd Floor of the Alexander building, however it still has a web page. The Friends of Battye Library has been a significant support to the library during an era where staffing and funding have been reduced by government restrictions on funding. The organisation has been instrumental in attracting external funding for
143-481: 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 is a namesake of Cape Peron in the metropolitan Perth coastal area. The peninsula is named for French naturalist François Péron , who visited the area with the Geographe expeditions of 1801 and 1803 . The peninsula
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#1732790365642156-643: Was an important part of the library's development. The Battye Library is housed on the Level 3 of the State Library of Western Australia (formerly known as the Alexander Library Building ). The public access can access rare and precious material from the Leah Jane Chen Reading Room. There is a help desk, microfiche readers, reference materials and computers. The separate State Records Office of Western Australia houses
169-518: Was used as a sheep station from the late 1880s until being purchased by the national government in 1990. In 1919 Peron Peninsula Station had a total area of 106,000 hectares (263,000 acres) divided into 25 paddocks and was stocked with 12,000 sheep. The Peron Historical Homestead is near Denham. It includes a visitor center. Peron Peninsula is part of the Carnarvon Basin, a geological structure lacking permanent fresh surface water. During
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