What is "carnarvon"

Carnarvon and Caernarvon are older forms of the name of the town in North Wales currently known as Caernarfon. The older names, in place for centuries, were anglicised phonetic spellings; since the 1970s the Welsh spelling has been generally adopted. Most places and things named after Caernarfon use one of the older spellings.

Carnarvon is an Australian bioregion in Western Australia. This area is also referred to physiographically as the Carnarvon Basin, where it is a physiographic province of the larger West Australian Shield division.

It has two sub regions:-

• Wooramel sub region - which is a significant part of the Shark Bay, Western Australia World Heritage area
• Cape Range sub region