Marine Protected Areas

East Gippsland Commonwealth Marine Reserve

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

  1. commencing at the point of latitude 37 degrees 38 minutes south, longitude 150 degrees 22 minutes east;
  2. then east along the parallel of latitude 37 degrees 38 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 150 degrees 36 minutes east;
  3. then south along the meridian of longitude 150 degrees 36 minutes east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 38 degrees 30 minutes south;
  4. then west along the parallel of latitude 38 degrees 30 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 149 degrees 51 minutes 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.

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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