Bremer Marine Park

Bremer Marine Park
Australia
Bremer Marine Park
Nearest town or city Bremer Bay
Coordinates 34°45′S 119°50′E / 34.750°S 119.833°E / -34.750; 119.833Coordinates: 34°45′S 119°50′E / 34.750°S 119.833°E / -34.750; 119.833
Established 14 December 2013[1]
Area 4,472 km2 (1,726.6 sq mi)[1]
Managing authorities Director of National Parks[1]
Website Bremer Marine Park

The Bremer Marine Park (formerly Bremer Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is a 4472 km2 marine protected area, with a depth range of about 15–5000 m, lying in the Southern Ocean off the southern coast of Western Australia about 50 km south-east of the town of Bremer Bay. An area of 284 km2, comprising the northernmost section adjoining Western Australia’s coastal waters, has been zoned as a marine national park (IUCN Category II), with the remainder as multiple use or special purpose zones (IUCN Category VI).[2]

It was gazetted in 14 December 2013 and was renamed on 11 October 2017.[3][1]

Fauna

The marine park provides important seasonal calving habitat for southern right whales as well as supporting migrating humpback whales. It is a foraging area for Australian sea lions, Indian yellow-nosed albatrosses, flesh-footed shearwaters, soft-plumaged petrels and great white sharks. It also encompasses Bremer Canyon, a submarine canyon known as a biodiversity hotspot supporting seasonal aggregations of sperm and killer whales.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Director of National Parks (2018). South-west Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018 (PDF). Canberra: Director of National Parks. pp. 112–114. ISBN 978-0-9876152-4-4. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Bremer Commonwealth Marine Reserve". South-west Commonwealth marine Reserves Network. Department of the Environment, Australia. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
  3. ↑ "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Commonwealth Marine Reserves Renaming) Proclamation 2017". Federal Register of Legislation. Australian Government. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2018.


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