Marine Protected Areas

Franklin Commonwealth Marine Reserve

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

  1. commencing at the point of latitude 40 degrees 31 minutes 45 seconds south, longitude 144 degrees 15 minutes 27 seconds east;
  2. then east along the parallel of latitude 40 degrees 31 minutes 45 seconds south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 144 degrees 24 minutes 15 seconds east;
  3. then southerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 40 degrees 59 minutes 54 seconds south, longitude 144 degrees 18 minutes east;
  4. then west along the parallel of latitude 40 degrees 59 minutes 54 seconds south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 144 degrees 8 minutes 30 seconds east; and
  5. then northerly 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