page_title: Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve
hierarchical_section_title: Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve
caption_attribution_description: English: Stromatolites growing in Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, Shark Bay, Western Australia.
context_page_description: The Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is a protected marine nature reserve located in the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The 127,000-hectare nature reserve boasts the most diverse and abundant examples of living marine stromatolites in the world, monuments to life on Earth over 3,500 million years BP.
context_section_description: The Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is a protected marine nature reserve located in the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The 127,000-hectare (310,000-acre) nature reserve boasts the most diverse and abundant examples of living marine stromatolites in the world, monuments to life on Earth over 3,500 million years BP.
caption: Hamelin Pool stromatolites
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