Marine parks: Commonwealth waters
- Biohotspot has pages for 62 marine parks in Commonwealth waters.
- Together they cover 4,242,216 km²; where parks overlap, the area is counted once.
- 3.1 % of that area (129,671 km²) is in zones of IUCN category Ia, strict nature reserve.
The parks
| Park | km² | IUCN Ia |
|---|---|---|
| Abrolhos | 88,060 | 0.0 % |
| Apollo | 1,184 | 0.0 % |
| Arafura | 22,924 | 0.0 % |
| Argo-Rowley Terrace | 146,003 | 0.0 % |
| Arnhem | 7,125 | 0.0 % |
| Ashmore Reef | 583 | 94.2 % |
| Beagle | 2,928 | 0.0 % |
| Boags | 537 | 0.0 % |
| Bremer | 4,472 | 0.0 % |
| Carnarvon Canyon | 6,177 | 0.0 % |
| Cartier Island | 172 | 100.0 % |
| Central Eastern | 70,054 | 0.0 % |
| Christmas Island | 277,016 | 0.0 % |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands | 467,048 | 0.0 % |
| Coral Sea | 989,836 | 0.0 % |
| Dampier | 1,252 | 0.0 % |
| Eastern Recherche | 20,575 | 0.0 % |
| East Gippsland | 4,137 | 0.0 % |
| Eighty Mile Beach | 10,785 | 0.0 % |
| Flinders | 27,046 | 0.0 % |
| Franklin | 671 | 0.0 % |
| Freycinet | 57,941 | 0.0 % |
| Gascoyne | 81,766 | 0.0 % |
| Geographe | 977 | 0.0 % |
| Gifford | 5,829 | 0.0 % |
| Great Australian Bight | 45,822 | 0.0 % |
| Great Barrier Reef | 343,966 | 0.2 % |
| Gulf of Carpentaria | 23,771 | 0.0 % |
| Heard Island and McDonald Islands | 70,953 | 100.0 % |
| Hunter | 6,257 | 0.0 % |
| Huon | 9,991 | 0.0 % |
| Jervis | 2,473 | 0.0 % |
| Joseph Bonaparte Gulf | 8,597 | 0.0 % |
| Jurien | 1,851 | 0.0 % |
| Kimberley | 74,469 | 0.0 % |
| Limmen | 1,399 | 0.0 % |
| Lord Howe | 110,126 | 0.0 % |
| Macquarie Island | 475,465 | 12.0 % |
| Mermaid Reef | 540 | 0.0 % |
| Montebello | 3,413 | 0.0 % |
| Murat | 938 | 0.0 % |
| Murray | 25,804 | 0.0 % |
| Nelson | 6,123 | 0.0 % |
| Ningaloo | 2,435 | 0.0 % |
| Norfolk | 188,444 | 0.0 % |
| Oceanic Shoals | 71,743 | 0.0 % |
| Perth Canyon | 7,409 | 0.0 % |
| Roebuck | 304 | 0.0 % |
| Shark Bay | 7,443 | 0.0 % |
| Solitary Islands | 152 | 0.0 % |
| Southern Kangaroo Island | 630 | 0.0 % |
| South Tasman Rise | 27,704 | 0.0 % |
| South-west Corner | 271,833 | 0.0 % |
| Tasman Fracture | 42,501 | 0.0 % |
| Torres Strait Dugong Sanctuary | 13,092 | 0.0 % |
| Twilight | 4,641 | 0.0 % |
| Two Rocks | 882 | 0.0 % |
| Wessel | 5,908 | 0.0 % |
| West Cape York | 16,012 | 0.0 % |
| Western Eyre | 57,944 | 0.0 % |
| Western Kangaroo Island | 2,335 | 0.0 % |
| Zeehan | 19,897 | 0.0 % |
Source and licence
- Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2024 – Marine · Australian Government, DCCEEWLicence: CC BY 4.0Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (2025). Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2024 – Marine.
A park has a page when it covers at least 10 km², at least 3 open habitat or pressure layers have data inside it, and at least one habitat, carbon or pressure figure is measured inside it. Computed on 2026-10-27.