Marine Protected Areas

Nelson Marine Reserve

• Nelson home
• Management
• Map and boundary description

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• Map of the Nelson Commonwealth Marine Reserve (PDF - 44 KB)

Boundary description

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

1. commencing at the point of latitude 38 degrees 50 minutes south, longitude 139 degrees 59 minutes 47 seconds east;
2. then east along the parallel of latitude 38 degrees 50 minutes south, to its intersection with the adjacent area** boundary between South Australia and Victoria;
3. then south-westerly along that adjacent area boundary to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 43 minutes south;
4. then west along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 43 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 139 degrees 2 minutes 42 seconds east; and
5. then north-easterly 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.
**The adjacent area in relation to each State and the Northern Territory is the area the boundary of which is described under the headings referring to that State and the Northern Territory in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 immediately before the commencement of the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 and Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980.