Stokes National Park

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = protected

| name = Stokes National Park

| state = wa

| iucn_category = II

| image = Stokes Inlet 1 Stokes NP XII-2010.jpeg

| caption = Stokes Inlet (Bewenerup) in Stokes National Park

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| coordinates = {{coord|33|49|22|S|121|08|05|E|display=inline,title}}

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| nearest_town_or_city = Esperance

| area = 97.26

| area_footnotes = {{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}}

| established = 1976

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| managing_authorities = Department of Parks and Wildlife

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Stokes National Park is a national park in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, 538 km south-east of Perth. The National Park is located {{convert|80|km|mi|0}} west of 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.{{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}}

The area of the park is {{convert|9726|ha|acre}} excluding {{convert|16|ha|acre|abbr=on}} that is part of the historic Moir homestead.{{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}}

The park covers areas of coastal 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.{{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}}