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Gascoyne Western Australia
The interim Australian bioregions, with Gascoyne in red
Area	180,752.57 km (69,789.0 sq mi)
Localities around Gascoyne: Carnarvon Pilbara Little Sandy Desert Carnarvon Gascoyne Great Victoria Desert Murchison Murchison Murchison

Gascoyne is an interim Australian bioregion located in Western Australia. It has an area of 180,752.57 square kilometres (69,788.96 sq mi). Together with Murchison bioregion to the south, it constitutes the Western Australian Mulga shrublands ecoregion, as assessed by the World Wildlife Fund.

Subregions

It has three subregions named after localities or areas in the region:

• Ashburton GAS01 3,687,030 hectares (9,110,800 acres)
• Carnegie GAS02 4,718,656 hectares (11,660,050 acres)
• Augustus GAS03 9,669,571 hectares (23,894,030 acres)

Protected areas

Protected areas in the bioregion include:

• Barlee Range Nature Reserve
• Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area
• Collier Range National Park
• Mount Augustus National Park

References

1. Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 – Summary Report" (PDF). Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
2. "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
3. "Western Australian Mulga shrublands". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.

Further reading

• Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4.0 Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit. ISBN 0-642-21371-2

• IBRA regions
• Western Australian mulga shrublands