Marine park · Commonwealth waters
Heard Island and McDonald Islands Commonwealth Marine Reserve
Facts about this park from CAPAD 2024 and the world data on Biohotspot. Each figure is computed from the dataset named beside it; a figure that is missing or fails a check is left out.
- Area
- 70,953 km²
- IUCN category Ia
- 100.0 %
- Gazetted
- 2002
- Open layers with data
- 81
The park
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands covers 70,953 km².CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- CAPAD 2024 holds 4 records for this park.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- 100.0 % of the park (70,953 km²) is in zones of IUCN category Ia, strict nature reserve.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- CAPAD lists it as Commonwealth Marine Reserve.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- Its managing authority in CAPAD is DCCEEW (Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- It was gazetted in 2002 (CAPAD gazettal date).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
| IUCN category | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ia | 70,953 | 100.0 % |
Habitats and blue carbon
- Global Mangrove Watch maps no mangroves inside the park in 2020.Global Mangrove Watch v3 · CC BY
- The modelled kelp forest biome covers none of the park.Jayathilake & Costello 2020 · CC BY 4.0
Pressures
- The 2013 cumulative human impact score (Halpern et al. 2015) averages 2.39 across the park, from 0.02 to 3.35.Halpern et al. 2015 · CC0 1.0
Data and research
- 81 of the 1,475 world map layers on Biohotspot with an open licence have data inside the park.
- No document in the Biohotspot research library matches the search “Heard Island and McDonald Islands”.
Sources and licences
- Cumulative human impacts: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures) · Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)Licence: CC0 1.0Halpern, B., Frazier, M., Potapenko, J., Casey, K., Koenig, K., Longo, C., Lowndes, J., Rockwood, C., Selig, E., Selkoe, K., Walbridge, S. (2015) Cumulative human impacts: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures). KNB. doi:10.5063/F15718ZN. Associated paper: Halpern et al. 2015, 'Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world's ocean' (no formal citation string given in the metadata).
- Modelled Global Distribution of the Kelp Biome · UNEP-WCMC Ocean Data Viewer (hosting); University of Auckland / Nord University authorsLicence: CC BY 4.0Jayathilake D.R.M., Costello M.J. 2020. A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome. Biological Conservation 252, 108815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108815 (v2: Jayathilake & Costello 2021, Biological Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109099)
- Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) · UNEP-WCMC / ZenodoLicence: CC BY (UNEP WESR catalogue entry); not stated on the UNEP-WCMC resources page or the Zenodo v3 pageBunting, P.; Rosenqvist, A.; Hilarides, L.; Lucas, R.M.; Thomas, T.; Tadono, T.; Worthington, T.A.; Spalding, M.; Murray, N.J.; Rebelo, L-M. Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996 - 2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0. Remote Sensing. 2022.
- 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 here is the CAPAD 2024 Marine zones that share a name and a state. Habitat areas are the habitat maps’ polygons inside the park; carbon, heat stress and human impact are the map cells that touch it. Only sources with an open licence are used. Computed on 2026-10-27.