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Francois Peron National Park is a national park on the Peron Peninsula in Western Australia (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 to the north. ==Names and earlier uses== Aboriginal Australians were the initial inhabitants of the area and have been living there for over 26,000 years. The local peoples who speak the Malgana language call the area ''Wulyibidi''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Francois Peron National Park Brochure )〕 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 is situated within the bounds of the earlier pastoral lease of the Peron Station. Locations from the French exploration era include: * Guichenault (east coast of the Peron Peninsula) * Cape Lesueur (west coast of the Peron Peninsula) * Lake Montbazin A pearling camp was established on the peninsula at Herald Bight in the 1880s and the remains of the 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 a National Park – through the purchase of Peron Station (Pastoral Lease 3114/761) in 1990 〔Map 4, and page 7 of Hancock, Sue, Brown, Paul and Stephens, Burke (2000) ''Shark Bay Terrestrial Reserves Management Plan 2000- 2009'' Perth, Western Australia. Department of Conservation and Land Management for the National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority ISBN 0-7307-5510-X〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francois Peron National Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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