The Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is a protected marine nature reserve located in the UNESCO World Heritageālisted 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 3,500Ā million years BP.
Modern stromatolites in Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Hamelin Pool stromatolites
Walkway around Hamelin Pool
Hamelin Pool Stromatolites at low tide
Hamelin Station or Hamelin Station Reserve is a tourist site and conservation reserve, that was a pastoral lease, occupying an area of 202,000 hectares near the Shark Bay World Heritage Area in Western Australia. It was formerly a sheep station running merino sheep. It is famous for its free flowing artesian bore from the Birdrong Formation in the Carnarvon Artesian Basin, near the homestead, which has created an artificial lake that has become a haven for bird life.
The artificial lake created by the free flowing artesian bore in 2012
A view of the Hamelin homestead in 1975
A photo of the "mill board" that recorded the status artesian bore watering points on Hamelin in 1976
Interpretive signage about the construction of the Hamelin Homestead at Shell Beach.