Ningaloo Reef
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How it came to be
On the Ningaloo Coast of Western Australia, about 1,200 km north of Perth, runs a 260 km fringing reef, Australia's largest, set unusually close to the land; in places it is less than half a kilometre offshore. The traditional owners are the Baiyungu and Yinigudura peoples of the Yamatji.
The sea holds more than 300 species of coral and 700 of reef fish, and every year 300 to 500 whale sharks gather here at the time of mass coral spawning. Inland, the Cape Range karst is riddled with caves and sinkholes, with the richest cave fauna in Australia.
In the early 2000s a resort planned at Mauds Landing, a turtle nesting beach, set off a bitter dispute. In 2002 the writer Tim Winton gave his A$25,000 prize money to the campaign to save the reef, and the resort never went ahead. The coast was inscribed in 2011.
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