Detail of wall built from shell blocks of a compacted mass of white bivalves called Hamelin cockle at Hamelin Pool W Australia
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Steve Taylor ARPS / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5100 x 3400 px | 43.2 x 28.8 cm | 17 x 11.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
20 October 2010More information:
Shark Bay is home to the Hamelin Cockle a shell species so prolific in Hamelin Pool that the sheer volume of shells has been compacted into a solid mass able to be cut into blocks. A number of buildings in Shark Bay were built out of this material and the quarry site at Hamelin Pool where they were extracted can still be seen. The blocks, like attractive white breeze blocks are light with excellent insulating properties.