Police said a 4-year-old girl was found "alive and well" on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was suspected of being kidnapped from a tent during a family camping vacation on Australia's rugged west coast.

Cleo Smith was discovered in a property in the seaside town of Carnarvon, and a man was apprehended in an early morning raid, according to Western Australia Police deputy commissioner Col Blanch.

On October 16, she vanished with her sleeping bag from her family's tent at the Blowholes Campground, 75 kilometers north of Carnarvon, a town of 5,000 people.

“Cleo is alive and well,” Mr Blanch said.

“One of the officers picked her up into his arms and asked her: ‘What’s your name?’ She said: ‘My name is Cleo'."