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On a map of Australia, it looks like a close call between Carnarvon and Denham, but Denham has the honour of being the most westerly town in Australia. Denham (pop 600+) is a pretty seaside village facing onto the sheltered area of Shark Bay. Monkey Mia, where the dolphins come inshore and right on the beach. The stromatolites in Hamelin Pool were discovered by surveyors working for an oil exploration company in 1956 and were the first living examples of structures built by cyanobacteria. The cyanobacteria living in Hamelin Pool are direct descendants of the oldest form of photosynthetic life on earth
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