Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park

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Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park
Australia
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Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park
Nearest town or city Kingscote, South Australia
Coordinates 35°45′52.56″S136°17′3.84″E / 35.7646000°S 136.2844000°E / -35.7646000; 136.2844000 Coordinates: 35°45′52.56″S136°17′3.84″E / 35.7646000°S 136.2844000°E / -35.7646000; 136.2844000
Established8 December 2012 (2012-12-08) [1]
Area2,335.31 km2 (901.7 sq mi) [2]
Managing authorities Director of National Parks
Website Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park

Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park (formerly Western Kangaroo Island Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is a marine protected area located south of South Australia in waters within the Australian Exclusive economic zone to the south-west of Kangaroo Island and ranging in depth from 15 metres (49 feet) to 165 metres (541 feet). [3]

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It was gazetted in November 2012. [1] It was renamed on 11 October 2017. [4]

It is part of a group of Australian marine parks managed by the Department of the Environment and Energy known as the South-west Marine Parks Network. It adjoins the Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park managed by the Government of South Australia which it both bounds on its north-west side and fully encloses the portion of the state marine park surrounding Lipson Reef near its eastern extent. [5] [3]

The marine park includes ecosystems representative of the bioregion known as the "Spencer Gulf Shelf Province", two "key ecological features" consisting of firstly of a feature known as the "Kangaroo Island Pool" and the associated "Eyre Peninsula upwelling" both notable for their "high productivity, breeding and feeding aggregations" and secondly of a feature described as "Ancient coastline" within a depth range of 90–120 metres (300–390 ft) and as being of "high productivity", a calving area for southern right whale and feeding areas for the following species - Australian sea lion, blue whale, Caspian tern, great white shark, short-tailed shearwater and sperm whale. [3]

The marine park consists of two zones - a marine national park zone (IUCN Category II) with an area of 120 square kilometres (46 square miles) and a special purpose zone (IUCN Category VI) with an area of 2,215 square kilometres (855 square miles). [2] [3]

The South-west Marine Parks Network, including the Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park South-west Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network map.jpg
The South-west Marine Parks Network, including the Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park

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References

  1. 1 2 "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Commonwealth Marine Reserves) Proclamation 2012 - F2012L02188". Commonwealth of Australia, Comlaw. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) - consolidated data set for all marine protected areas in Australian State and Commonwealth waters (refer "DETAIL' tab)". Department of the Environment. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Director of National Parks (2018). South-west Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018 (PDF). Canberra: Director of National Parks. pp. 92–94. ISBN   978-0-9876152-4-4 . Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Commonwealth Marine Reserves Renaming) Proclamation 2017". Federal Register of Legislation. Australian Government. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park Management Plan 2012" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2012. p. 28. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
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