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About: Stokes Inlet

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Stokes Inlet is an inlet in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The inlet is situated 65 kilometres (40 mi) west of Esperance in Stokes National Park and is set is a large river valley with permanent deep water and high dunes located on either side. Thick bushland and paperbark trees surround the inlet and grow down to the waters edge. It is in a largely unmodified condition.The inlet functions primarily as a result of wave energy and is a wave dominated estuary.

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  • Stokes Inlet is an inlet in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The inlet is situated 65 kilometres (40 mi) west of Esperance in Stokes National Park and is set is a large river valley with permanent deep water and high dunes located on either side. Thick bushland and paperbark trees surround the inlet and grow down to the waters edge. It is in a largely unmodified condition.The inlet functions primarily as a result of wave energy and is a wave dominated estuary. Stokes Inlet was named in 1848 by John Septimus Roe, the Surveyor General of Western Australia, while leading a five man exploration expedition along the coast, commemorating John Lort Stokes' work on HMS Beagle, surveying the Western Australian coast. (en)
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  • Stokes Inlet is an inlet in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The inlet is situated 65 kilometres (40 mi) west of Esperance in Stokes National Park and is set is a large river valley with permanent deep water and high dunes located on either side. Thick bushland and paperbark trees surround the inlet and grow down to the waters edge. It is in a largely unmodified condition.The inlet functions primarily as a result of wave energy and is a wave dominated estuary. (en)
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