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Denham - WA

Denham

Town

Position

DEG: -25.927711 113.536232

DMS: 25º 55' 39.76" S 113º 32' 10.44" E

UTM: 49 J 7129862mN 754027mE

Altitude: 14.5m

Place Type

Population - Town

Location

705.1kms North of Perth - Driving 840 km (9 hours 26 mins)

Address & Contact

52-58 Hughes St
Denham WA 6537

Phone: N/A

Email: N/A

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Information

Beginning as a pearling settlement called Freshwater Camp, Denham was gazetted as a town by the WA Government in May 1898. Today as Shark Bay's commercial centre, Denham offers a range of accomodation, restaurants, shops and the Shark Bay Visitors center where you can get all up to date information and make booking for holiday activities and accomodation. Other activities include safe swimming, beaches, tours and fishing cruises, recreational and service jetties, camel rides and the nearby Ocean Park oceanarium and little lagoon picnic or fishing spot. For children a skate board park and mini golf course are located near Denham's Oval with several parks offering playground facilities. A safe beach is located in front of the Denham boulevard, however great swimming and snorkeling spots are scattererd throughout the Bay. Denham is the closest town to famous Monkey Mia.

PlaceID	58090

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Shark Bay and Monkey Mia

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Shark Bay Airport at 01/04:00pm WST

Distance from Denham 5.66km NE

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
30.8°C	26.4°C	19%	4.5°C	1016.9hPa	0.0mm	W	17km/hr 9knots	20km/hr 11knots

Closest Climatic Station

Denham

Distance from Denham 0.47km W

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	30.6	31.8	31.1	28.5	25.8	22.9	21.7	22.4	23.8	25.5	27.7	29.1
Mean Min. °C	22.0	22.8	22.0	19.7	16.5	13.9	12.7	13.2	14.8	16.5	18.6	20.5
Mean Rain mm	7.7	15.3	14.2	14.0	37.4	54.8	40.0	21.9	7.8	6.1	3.1	2.4