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Jervis Bay National Park, [1] formerly known as Jervis Bay National Park (NSW), consists of several protected areas on the western and northern foreshores of Jervis Bay, on the south coast of New South Wales. The park is close to the town of Huskisson and includes Hyams Beach, renowned for its white sand, whale watching and fishing ...
Jervis Bay Marine Park is a marine protected area established by the Government of New South Wales in 1998. [2] and the current zoning plan has been in place since 1 October 2002. [3] The marine park is approximately 210 km 2 (81 sq mi) in area and spans over 100 km (62 mi) of coastline from Kinghorn Point in the north to Sussex Inlet. [2]
the Bherwerre Peninsula, on the southern foreshore of Jervis Bay, Bowen Island and the waters of the south of the bay; lands bordered by Wreck Bay to the south, St Georges Basin to the north and Sussex Inlet to the west; What is now a national park was declared as a nature reserve in 1971. In 1992, Jervis Bay National Park was declared.
Cliff faces and vegetation at the Booderee National Park. Jervis Bay is a drowned river valley and formed 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. [29] The bay took on its present appearance around 4000 BC after the sea levels had risen 120 metres (390 ft), and as sand dune barriers created the southern peninsula. [30]
Under the Howard government the world’s first Oceans Policy was developed. [2] It included the creation of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park in 1998, greatly increased protection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, and in 2007, established a series of large marine parks in Australia's south-east, now collectively known as the South-east Marine Parks Network.
The Beecroft Peninsula encompasses an area of about 5250 hectares just south of the town of Currarong, about 200 kilometres south of Sydney. The historic Point Perpendicular Lighthouse, and its grounds, constructed in 1899 at Point Perpendicular, is the southern tip of the peninsula at the northern entrance to Jervis Bay.
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