The Macquarie Island Marine Park features distinctive sub-Antarctic organisms and protects tracts of the wild Southern Ocean to provide migration, feeding and breeding sites for seals, whales, penguins and seabirds. The Macquarie Island Marine Park (previously known as the Macquarie Island Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park near Macquarie Island in the southwest Pacific. The marine park covers an area of 162,000 km 2 (63,000 sq mi) and is assigned IUCN category IV.
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What's next? The governor-general needs to give the final sign-off Australia's federal environment minister has signed off on plans to almost triple the size of the marine park off Macquarie Island. An isolated, subantarctic island, Macquarie Island sits about halfway between Hobart and Antarctica. CNN — Australia plans to triple the size of an ecologically important marine park and close off an area larger than Germany to fishing and mining, the government announced Monday, protecting. "Macquarie Island Marine Park is a remote wildlife wonderland - a critical habitat for millions of seabirds, seals and penguins,"Plibersek said. "Expanding and increasing the protection of the. Macquarie Island Marine Park is located in the Southern Ocean, about 1500 kilometres south-east of Tasmania and adjacent to the Macquarie Island Nature Reserve. The marine park is significant for its unique geological and biological characteristics.
Triple threat Macquarie Island Marine Park expansion to protect land, sea and creatures
Macquarie Island, around 1,500km southeast of Tasmania, is more than just a remote rocky outcrop. In fact, it's the only piece of land on the planet formed completely from ocean floor, which. Macquarie Island Marine Park will triple in size in a federal government move that aims to protect the ocean and its threatened species for future generations. Located halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica, the park, which currently covers 162,000 square kilometres, will grow to cover 475,465sq.km. Macquarie Island Marine Park is set to triple in size thanks to a decision by the Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, on a final marine park design to place an extra 385,000 square kilometres of Australia's oceans under high protection. The Macquarie Island Marine Park currently covers 162,000 square kilometres, with depths from 86 metres to 6,341 metres. The final recommended design will see the marine park nearly triple in size, with the area under high protection larger than Germany.
‘Massive win’ for the future of Macquarie Island Marine Park The Courier Mail
The exposed crest of a 1,600-kilometre (994-mile) undersea ridge, Macquarie is the only island in the world composed entirely of rocks from the Earth's mantle, thrust above the sea to create a stunning landscape of escarpments, lakes, and lush vegetation. Three different types of fur seals live on Macquarie Island and feed in the waters surrounding it. (Australian Antarctic Division: Kerry Steinberner) The proposal, which will open for public consultation in March, has been celebrated by conservationists.
Macquarie Island marine park is set to almost triple in size. The isolated island between Tasmania and Antarctica is home to up to 100,000 seals and roughly. The island was put on the World Heritage List in 1997. Slide 4 of 9 In 1999, the marine park was established, protecting 162,000 square kilometres of water off the island's south-east coast.
Australia confirms the creation of a giant marine park closed to fishing and mining
Under the proposals, the existing Macquarie Island Marine Park will be tripled in size, bringing a total of 475,465 sq km under protection. That is an area roughly the size of Spain or Cameroon. Macquarie Island Marine Park features distinctive sub-Antarctic organisms and protects tracts of the wild Southern Ocean to provide migration, feeding and breeding sites for seals, whales, penguins and seabirds. Figure 1: Macquarie Island and Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
