This dataset is not the current marine park zoning. It is retained here for historic purposes. See http://www.environment.gov.au/fed/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7BCD8877F3-8C39-4A20-A53F-070FBEE5AF3C%7D for current zoning. Consistent with the Australian Government's commitment to develop a National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), networks of Commonwealth Marine Reserves have been proclaimed for Commonwealth waters across the South-west, North-west, North, Coral Sea and Temperate East Marine Regions. These networks build on previous Marine Protected Area proclamations, including the South-east network declared in 2007. This dataset is released under Creative Commons by Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia (CC BY-NC 3.0). IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MARINE USERS Transitional arrangements apply to the South-west, North-west, North and Temperate East Networks and the Coral Sea reserve, until management plans come into effect. These arrangements involve NO CHANGES ON THE WATER for marine users. Note, there are no changes to management arrangements in the marine reserves that existed prior to the establishment of the new reserves, that is, the same restrictions on activities will continue to apply even where those reserves have been incorporated into new reserves. The South-east Network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves is managed under the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2013-23, in place from 1 July 2013. More information is available at www.environment.gov.au/marinereserves This data contains spatial and contextual information about Commonwealth Marine Reserves under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth governments Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by the Australian Government Department of the Environment. It does not include data on MPA's in other Australian jurisdictions (e.g. the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, State/Territory parks), or Terrestrial Protected Areas with marine components (eg Pulu Keeling National Park). This is an extract of the full metadata record supplied by the Department of the Environment with this dataset. See http://www.environment.gov.au/fed/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B0435E716-1798-467C-8F43-E0CB6B32E8EF%7D for more information. eAtlas Change Log: 2023-04-04 - Marked the metadata as superseded. Fixed the link to the official data download. Updated the modification date. Changed the copyright from '© Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of the Environment, 2014' to the current '© Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 2014'. Copied over additional lineage. Corrected the licensing from CC BY-NC 2.5 to CC BY-NC 3.0 eAtlas notes: This dataset is cached in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\non-custodian\pre-2015\AU_DotE_Comm-marine-reserves-2014

Consistent with the Australian Government's commitment to develop a National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), networks of Commonwealth Marine Reserves have been proclaimed for Commonwealth waters across the South-west, North-west, North, Coral Sea and Temperate East Marine Regions. These networks build on previous Marine Protected Area proclamations, including the South-east network declared in 2007.\n\nThis dataset is released under Creative Commons by Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia (CC BY-NC 3.0).\n\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MARINE USERS\nTransitional arrangements apply to the South-west, North-west, North and Temperate East Networks and the Coral Sea reserve, until management plans come into effect. These arrangements involve NO CHANGES ON THE WATER for marine users. Note, there are no changes to management arrangements in the marine reserves that existed prior to the establishment of the new reserves, that is, the same restrictions on activities will continue to apply even where those reserves have been incorporated into new reserves. The South-east Network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves is managed under the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2013-23, in place from 1 July 2013. More information is available at www.environment.gov.au/marinereserves \n\nThis data contains spatial and contextual information about Commonwealth Marine Reserves under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth governments Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by the Australian Government Department of the Environment. It does not include data on MPA's in other Australian jurisdictions (e.g. the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, State/Territory parks), or Terrestrial Protected Areas with marine components (eg Pulu Keeling National Park).

Web service for Commonwealth Marine Regions. Commonwealth Marine Planning Regions are areas within australian waters for which Marine Bioregional Plans will be established under section 176 of the commonwealth EPBC Act.

This data contains spatial and contextual information about Australian Marine Parks proclaimed under the Commonwealth Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by Parks Australia, with the addition of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve, which is managed by the Australian Antarctic Division. The Australian Marine Parks include the North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East Networks, the Coral Sea Marine Park, and the Indian Ocean Territories Marine Parks. These parks were established in Commonwealth waters consistent with the Australian Government’s commitment to develop a National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas.More information can be found at:Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve – Australian Antarctic ProgramThis dataset does not include marine protected areas in other Australian jurisdictions (e.g. the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, State/Territory marine parks), or terrestrial protected areas with marine components (e.g. Pulu Keeling National Park). More information can be found at:Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaMore information about the zoning and rules for activities for each of the networks can be found here:Coral Sea: Coral Sea Marine Park | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaIndian Ocean Territories: Indian Ocean Territories Marine Parks | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaNorth network: North Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaNorth-west network: North-west Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSouth-east network: South-east Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSouth-west network: South-west Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaTemperate East: Temperate East Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSince this dataset was originally published in 2018 there have been the following updates:1. A technical amendment was made on the basis of user feedback (April 30th 2019). Macquarie Island was the only marine park affected by this amendment. The area calculation for Macquarie Island Marine Park was previously under reported by 483km2. This will have affected statistical analyses that used the calculated area (KM2) as an input. This amendment is superseded by item 4 below.2. A zoning boundary error identified at West Island in Ashmore Reef Marine Park was corrected (March 2022).3. Two new Australian Marine Parks were added to this dataset in March 2022; Christmas Island Marine Park and Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park.4. The addition of the expanded Macquarie Island Marine Park which came into effect on 1 July 2023, replacing the boundaries of the original marine park proclaimed in 1999.5. The expanded Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve took effect on 24 January 2025. 6. The South-east Marine Parks zoning updates under the new management plan came into effect on 13 February 2025.

This dataset is a simplified version of the Australian Marine Parks dataset. It shows only the outer boundaries of the parks and does not include zoning. This data contains spatial and contextual information about Australian Marine Parks proclaimed under the Commonwealth Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by Parks Australia, with the addition of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve, which is managed by the Australian Antarctic Division. The Australian Marine Parks include the North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East Networks, the Coral Sea Marine Park, and the Indian Ocean Territories Marine Parks. These parks were established in Commonwealth waters consistent with the Australian Government’s commitment to develop a National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas. This dataset does not include data on marine protected areas in other Australian jurisdictions (e.g. the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, State/Territory marine parks), or terrestrial protected areas with marine components (e.g. Pulu Keeling National Park). More information can be found at https://parksaustralia.gov.au/marine Since this dataset was originally published in 2018 there have been the following updates: 1. A technical amendment was made on the basis of user feedback (April 30th 2019). Macquarie Island was the only marine park affected by this amendment. The area calculation for Macquarie Island Marine Park was previously under reported by 483km2. This will have affected statistical analyses that used the calculated area (KM2) as an input. This amendment is superseded by item 4 below. 2. A zoning boundary error identified at West Island in Ashmore Reef Marine Park was corrected (March 2022). 3. Two new Australian Marine Parks were added to this dataset in March 2022; Christmas Island Marine Park and Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park. 4. The addition of the expanded Macquarie Island Marine Park which came into effect on 1 July 2023, replacing the boundaries of the original marine park proclaimed in 1999. 5. The expanded Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve took effect on 24 January 2025. 6. The South-east Marine Parks zoning updates under the new management plan came into effect on 13 February 2025.

The Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2016 provides both spatial and textual information about government, Indigenous and privately protected areas for Australia, in both the marine and terrestrial environments. This dataset is the marine component of the CAPAD only. Marine CAPAD provides information about off-shore protected areas in both state and Commonwealth waters. State and Territory conservation agencies supplied data current to 30 June 2016. This is the eighth version of the marine database, with previous versions released in 1997, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.The Department also publishes protected areas data for the terrestrial environment. The terrestrial component of the database has been previously released in 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 2010, 2012 and 2014.CAPAD provides a snapshot of protected areas that meet the IUCN definition of a protected area: "A protected area is an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means" (IUCN 1994).The department publishes a summary of the CAPAD data biennially on its website at https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/nrs/science/capad.This version of CAPAD is a public and downloadable version of CAPAD 2016 data, available for use through the CC-BY licencing model.Commercial users: Commercial users should note the availability of a more descriptive dataset for Commonwealth Marine Reserves. It is recommended for use in commercial applications as it includes additional information about management arrangements for Commonwealth Marine Reserves. This dataset is available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license from:https://www.environment.gov.au/fed/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B2E8DD19C-1B93-4D90-BD1C-128DDC4A2998%7D------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MARINE USERS – TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTSThe process for developing management plans has been completed for the five Commonwealth marine reserve networks declared around Australia and the Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve. Until the new management plans come into effect transitional management arrangements are in place. Under these transitional arrangements, there are no changes "on the water" for users in the new areas added to the Commonwealth marine reserve estate. If people hold an existing approval to undertake activities within Commonwealth marine reserves or the now-revoked Coral Sea Conservation Zone, they are able to continue to operate under the terms of the existing approval. No additional administrative requirements apply.The management plan for the South-east Network came into effect on 1 July 2013, while the management plans for the South-west, North-west, North and Temperate East Networks and the Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve are under review. More information is available at https://parksaustralia.gov.au/marine/parks/.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Main attributes in Marine CAPAD 2016 include:PA_ID: The protected area ID code. The first three digits of the PA_ID code are common to all component polygons of a single protected area. It is a DoEE generated number.NAME: the name of the protected area.TYPE: the type of protected area according to the protected area establishment mechanism.TYPE_ABBR: the abbreviation of the TYPE.TYPE abbreviations:AQR = Aquatic ReserveCA = Conservation AreaCMR = Commonwealth Marine ReserveCP = Conservation ParkDPAA = Dugong Protection Area (A)DPAB = Dugong Protection Area (B)DS = Dolphin SanctuaryFHAA = Fish Habitat Area (A)FHAB = Fish Habitat Area (B)FHPA = Fish Habitat Protection AreaGR = Game ReserveIPA = Indigenous Protected AreaLS = Rock Lobster SanctuaryMCA = Marine Conservation

Commonwealth Marine Planning Regions are areas within australian waters for which Marine Bioregional Plans will be established under section 176 of the commonwealth EPBC Act.

A regionalisation of Australian waters (excluding waters adjacent to the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and waters adjacent to the Australian Antarctic Territory) derived from deep-water demersal fish assemblages. A total of 41 onshelf and offshelf provincial bioregions were identified for IMCRA v4.0.Onshelf provincial bioregions are based on the 17 IMCRA v3.3 demersal provinces and biotones identified in 1997.Offshelf provincial bioregions were defined in 2004 as part of a program run by Geoscience Australia, CSIRO Marine Research and the National Oceans Office. They represent units that contain broad patterns in biodiversity, as represented by deep-water demersal fish assemblages, based on the assumption that the demersal fish distributions are a surrogate of marine faunal distributions. Below 2,000 m water depth, the boundaries of the benthic provincial bioregions are defined solely by the NMB (National Marine Bioregionalisation) geomorphic features data set. A total of 24 offshelf benthic provincial bioregions were defined on this basis, including 15 core bioregions representing areas of endemism, and 9 transition zones representing areas of faunal mixing.For IMCRA v4.0 the coastline was replaced with the national 100k coastline to provide greater consistency. The Australian EEZ limit was sourced from AMB v2. Based on a decision by the Bioregionalisation Working Group, the shelf break from IMCRA v3.3 was largely retained, although in some instances the shelf break from the NMB (National Marine Bioregionalisation) provincial bioregions was used.

This dataset corresponds to the zoning of Commonwealth Marine Parks managed by Parks Australia. This metadata is a non-authoritative extract maintained for the eAtlas. See links for the original and full metadata. Consistent with the Australian Government's commitment to develop a National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas, networks of marine parks have been proclaimed for Commonwealth waters across the North, North-west, South-west, Temperate East and Coral Sea Marine Regions. These networks build on previous marine protected area proclamations, including the South-east Marine Parks Network declared in 2007. This data contains spatial and contextual information about Australian Marine Parks proclaimed under the Commonwealth Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by Parks Australia, with the addition of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve, which is managed by the Australian Antarctic Division http://www.heardisland.aq/protection-and-management/marine-reserve It does not include data on marine protected areas in other Australian jurisdictions (e.g. the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, State/Territory marine parks), or terrestrial protected areas with marine components (e.g. Pulu Keeling National Park). More information can be found at http://parksaustralia.gov.au/marine Please note: This data (updated April 30th 2019) contains a technical amendment made on the basis of user feedback. Macquarie Island is the only marine park affected by this amendment. The area calculation for Macquarie Island Marine Park has been under reported by 483km2. This will affect statistical analyses that use the calculated area (KM2) as an input. Methods: Format: This is available in ESRI FileGDB, KML, MIF and Shapefile format. Data Dictionary: Attributes include NetName (name of each network) ResName (name of each marine reserve), Zone (type of management zone within each reserve), ZoneIUCN (the IUCN assigned to each zone) NatLegend (to apply symbology), PolygonID (unique ID applied to each polygon area) and Area_km2 (area in square kms). The attributes should be considered authoritative. Data Location: This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\non-custodian\2020-2024\AU_DAWE_Australian-Marine-Parks_2019