Beagle Marine Reserve
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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 Bass Strait, excluding any coastal waters* in relation to the State of Victoria or the State of Tasmania, contained within and bounded as follows**:
- commencing at the point of latitude 39 degrees 6 minutes south, longitude 147 degrees 6 minutes east;
- then south-easterly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 39 degrees 22 minutes south, longitude 147 degrees 28 minutes east;
- then south along the meridian of longitude 147 degrees 28 minutes east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 36 minutes south;
- then west along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 36 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 146 degrees 34 minutes east;
- then north along the meridian of longitude 146 degrees 34 minutes east, to its intersection with the outer limit of the coastal waters* of Victoria at approximate latitude 39 degrees 16 minutes 32 seconds south;
- then easterly and generally northerly along the outer limit of the coastal waters* of Victoria to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 6 minutes south; and
- then west along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 6 minutes south 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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