Marine Protected Areas

Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve

Maps

Boundary description

All of that area within the Coral Sea contained within and bounded as follows*:

  1. commencing at the point of latitude 17 degrees 11 minutes south, longitude 150 degrees 5 minutes east;
  2. then west along the parallel of latitude 17 degrees 11 minutes south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 149 degrees east;
  3. then north along the meridian of longitude 149 degrees east to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 16 degrees 46 minutes south;
  4. then east along the parallel of latitude 16 degrees 46 minutes south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 149 degrees 48 minutes east;
  5. then generally northeast along the geodesic to the point of latitude 16 degrees 23 minutes south, longitude 150 degrees 12 minutes east;
  6. then east along the parallel of latitude 16 degrees 23 minutes south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 150 degrees 30 minutes east;
  7. then south along the meridian of longitude 150 degrees 30 minutes east to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 16 degrees 52 minutes south; and
  8. then generally southwest 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.

Existing Commonwealth reserves under the EPBC Act

Marine protected areas

Temperate East Marine Region

Coral Sea

North-west Marine Region

South-east Marine Region

South-west Marine Region