Stokes National Park is a national park in Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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Australia

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), 538 km south-east of Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

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The National Park is located 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Esperance

Esperance, Western Australia

Esperance is a large town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located on the Southern Ocean coastline approximately east-southeast of the state capital, Perth. The shire of Esperance is home to 9,536 people as of the 2006 census, its major industries are tourism, agriculture,...

 on the southern coast. A vehicle entry fee applies to Stokes National Park.

The Park is named after Stokes Inlet

Stokes Inlet

Stokes Inlet is an inlet in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.The inlet is situated from 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...

 which lies within the park and is its best known feature.

The area of the park is 9726 hectares (24,033.4 acre) excluding 16 ha (39.5 acre) that is part of the historic Moir homestead.
The park is mostly areas of coastal heath

Heath (habitat)

A heath or heathland is a dwarf-shrub habitat found on mainly low quality acidic soils, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, often dominated by plants of the Ericaceae. There are some clear differences between heath and moorland...

 and scrubland, smaller areas of low dense forest

Forest

A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...

and sandy beaches around the inlet and coast to the south of the park.