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As of 2022, an additional 15 nature reserves exist in Western Australia which are listed on the marine register, consisting exclusively of offshore islands, covering 9,912 hectares (24,490 acres) or 0.09 percent of Western Australia's waters, and accounting for 0.21 percent of all marine protected areas in the state. [3]
The Heard Island and McDonald Islands are located in the southern Indian Ocean, approximately 4,100 kilometres south-west of Perth, Western Australia. The marine reserve covers an area of approximately 71,200 km 2 (27,500 sq mi). [25]
The South-west Corner Marine Park (formerly South-west Corner Commonwealth Marine Reserve) [3] is a marine protected area on the lower south west and southern coast of Western Australia, one of 14 in the South-west Marine Parks Network. [4] It was gazetted on 14 December 2013 and was renamed on 11 October 2017. [5] [2]
The Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is a protected marine nature reserve located in the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The 127,000-hectare (310,000-acre) [ 1 ] nature reserve boasts the most diverse and abundant examples of living marine stromatolites in the world, monuments to life on ...
The Ningaloo Marine Park (formerly known as the Ningaloo Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park offshore of Western Australia, and west of the Ningaloo Coast. [3] [4] The marine park covers an area of 2,435 km 2 (940 sq mi) and is assigned IUCN category IV. It is one of the 13 parks managed under the North-west Marine Parks ...
The Jurien Bay Marine Park is a protected marine park that is located 200 to 300 kilometres (120 to 190 mi) north of Perth, off the coastal tip of the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The 82,375-hectare (203,550-acre) marine park was formally declared on 31 August 2003 ( 2003-08-31 ) and is situated along the Indian Ocean Drive that ...
The Kimberley Marine Park, formerly known as the Kimberley Commonwealth Marine Reserve [3] and also known as the Great Kimberley Marine Park, [4] is an Australian marine park offshore of Western Australia, near the Kimberley region.
The Mermaid Reef Marine Park (previously known as the Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve) is an Australian marine park in the Rowley Shoals, located approximately 280 kilometres (170 mi) north-west of Broome, Western Australia. The marine park covers an area of 540 km 2 (210 sq mi) and is assigned IUCN category II. It is one of 13 ...