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Hamelin Pool Stromatolites

Australia

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 stromatolite

s in the world, monuments to life on Earth over 3,500 million years BP.

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