Marine Protected Areas

Boags Commonwealth Marine Reserve

Map and boundary description

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All of that area within Bass Strait contained within and bounded as follows*:

  1. commencing at the point of latitude 40 degrees 8 minutes 30 seconds south, longitude 144 degrees 49 minutes 30 seconds east;
  2. then east along the parallel of latitude 40 degrees 8 minutes 30 seconds south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 145 degrees 9 minutes east;
  3. then south along the meridian of longitude 145 degrees 9 minutes east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 40 degrees 19 minutes south;
  4. then west along the parallel of latitude 40 degrees 19 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 144 degrees 49 minutes 30 seconds east; and
  5. then north along the meridian of longitude 144 degrees 49 minutes 30 seconds east, 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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