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{{Infobox protected area
| name            = Stokes National Park
| photo           = Stokes Inlet 1 Stokes NP XII-2010.jpeg
| photo_caption   = Stokes Inlet (Bewenerup) in Stokes National Park
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| iucn_category   = II
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| coordinates     = {{coord|33|49|22|S|121|08|05|E|display=inline,title}}
| map             = Western Australia
| map_alt         = 
| map_width       = 200px
| relief          = yes
| label           = Stokes National Park
| label_position  = top
| location        = [[Western Australia]]
| established     = 1976
| area_ha         = 
| area_km2        = 97.26
| area_ref        = <ref name="ParkAreas">{{cite journal| year=2010| title=Department of Environment and Conservation 2009–2010 Annual Report| journal=Annual Report| pages=48| publisher=Department of Environment and Conservation| issn=1835-114X| url=http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/content/view/6139/2345/| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111124319/http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/content/view/6139/2345/| archive-date=11 January 2011| df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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| nearest_city    = [[Esperance, Western Australia|Esperance]]
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| governing_body  = [[Department of Parks and Wildlife (Western Australia)|Department of Parks and Wildlife]]
| website         = {{official|1=dec.wa.gov.au/component/option,com_hotproperty/task,view/id,104/Itemid,755}}
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'''Stokes National Park''' is a national park in the [[Goldfields-Esperance]] region of [[Western Australia]], 538&nbsp;km south-east of [[Perth]]. The National Park is located {{convert|80|km|mi|0}} west of [[Esperance, Western Australia|Esperance]] on the southern coast.

The park was named after [[Stokes Inlet]], which lies within the park and is its best known feature, which was in turn 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jamieson |first1=Daryl |title=The Very Early Pioneers of Munglinup |url=https://sites.google.com/site/munglinuppioneers19571972/home/the-very-early-pioneers |website=Munglinup Pioneers 1957 - 1972 |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref>

The area of the park is {{convert|9726|ha|acre}}<ref name="ParkAreas"/> excluding {{convert|16|ha|acre|abbr=on}} that is part of the historic Moir homestead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://au.totaltravel.yahoo.com/listing/623436/australia/wa/esperancearea/esperancebay/stokes-national-park/|title=Total Travel - Stokes National Park|year=2010|access-date=15 December 2010|archive-date=23 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723003001/http://au.totaltravel.yahoo.com/listing/623436/australia/wa/esperancearea/esperancebay/stokes-national-park/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The park covers areas of coastal [[Heath (habitat)|heath]] and [[scrubland]], smaller areas of low dense [[forest]] and sandy beaches around the inlet and coast to the south of the park.

The National Park is on a relinquished pastoral lease, originally known as Fanny Cove Station, which in 1951 became Young River Station. It was then reverted to [[crown land]] and national park status by 1973. The Moir homestead ruins from the 1873 establishment at Fanny Cove were on a heritage list by 1993, but have since been destroyed by fire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/media/media.nsf/3ac7a8e7e2cac5d0482566b4001bc887/19fb7bb73e46083048256a64002dc11c02ec.html|title=State Government adds Moir Homestead Ruins to Heritage Register|publisher=Government of Western Australia|date=8 June 2001|access-date=18 March 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20020212130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23604/20020213-0000/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/media/media.nsf/3ac7a8e7e2cac5d0482566b4001bc887/19fb7bb73e46083048256a64002dc11c02ec.html|archive-date=12 February 2002|df=dmy-all}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Protected areas of Western Australia]]

== References ==
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{{National Parks of Western Australia}}

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[[Category:National parks of Western Australia]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1976]]
[[Category:Goldfields–Esperance]]


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