Marine Protected Areas

Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve boundary description

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All of that area within the Indian Ocean contained within and bounded as follows*:

1. commencing at the point of latitude 12 degrees 9 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 123 degrees 0 minutes 4.5 seconds east;
2. then east along the parallel of latitude 12 degrees 9 minutes 55 seconds south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 123 degrees 14 minutes 4.5 seconds east;
3. then generally southeast along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 12 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 123 degrees 16 minutes 4.5 seconds east;
4. then south along the meridian of longitude 123 degrees 16 minutes 4.5 seconds east to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 12 degrees 15 minutes 55 seconds south;
5. then generally southwest along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 19 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 123 degrees 10 minutes 4.5 seconds east;
6. then generally west along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 18 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 123 degrees 0 minutes 4.5 seconds east;
7. then generally northwest along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 13 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 122 degrees 53 minutes 4.5 seconds east;
8. then generally northeast along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 11 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 122 degrees 55 minutes 4.5 seconds east; and
9. then generally northeast along the geodesic to the point of commencement.

* All geographic coordinates are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) as described in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette GN35 of 6 September 1995.

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