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Apollo Commonwealth Marine Reserve

Map and boundary description
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2009

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Boundary description

All of that area within the Southern Ocean and Bass Strait, excluding any coastal waters * in relation to the State of Victoria, contained within and bounded as follows **:

  1. commencing at the point of latitude 38 degrees 54 minutes 40 seconds south, longitude 143 degrees 30 minutes 5 seconds east;
  2. then east along the parallel of latitude 38 degrees 54 minutes 40 seconds south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 143 degrees 40 minutes 5 seconds east;
  3. then south along the meridian of longitude 143 degrees 40 minutes 5 seconds east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 11 minutes 55 seconds south;
  4. then east along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 11 minutes 55 seconds south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 144 degrees east;
  5. then south along the meridian of longitude 144 degrees east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 21 minutes south;
  6. then west along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 21 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 143 degrees 30 minutes 5 seconds east; and
  7. then north along the meridian of longitude 143 degrees 30 minutes 5 seconds east, to the point of commencement.

* The coastal waters are defined in relation to each State and the Northern Territory by the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 and Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980.
** 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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