Marine park · New South Wales

Batemans Marine Park

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: 852 km²
IUCN category Ia: 0.0 %
Gazetted: 2006
Open layers with data: 363

The park

Batemans covers 852 km².CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
CAPAD 2024 holds 127 records for this park.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
It has 74 named zones.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
None of the park is in zones of IUCN category Ia, strict nature reserve.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
CAPAD lists it as Marine Park.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Its managing authority in CAPAD is NSW_DPIRD.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
It was gazetted in 2006 (CAPAD gazettal date).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0

Area by IUCN category
IUCN category	km²	Share
IV	375	44.1 %
VI	322	37.8 %
II	154	18.1 %

Named zones in CAPAD
Zone	IUCN	km²
General Use Zone	VI	318
Montague Island Habitat Protection Zone	IV	141
Batemans Bay Habitat Protection Zone	IV	136
Mullimburra Sanctuary Zone	II	44.5
Toragy Point-Congo Habitat Protection Zone	IV	36.0
Tollgate Islands Sanctuary Zone	II	32.9
Tuross-Coila Habitat Protection Zone	IV	26.1
Murramarang Sanctuary Zone	II	24.5
Brush Island Sanctuary Zone	II	17.1
Bogola Sanctuary Zone	II	16.4
Tuross Lake & River Habitat Protection Zone	IV	15.8
Wagonga Inlet Habitat Protection Zone	IV	5.72
Burrewarra Sanctuary Zone	II	2.97
Montague South Sanctuary Zone	IV	2.97
Murramarang Coast Special Purpose Zone	VI	2.89
Brou Sanctuary Zone	II	2.08
Upper Durras Lake Sanctuary Zone	II	1.79
Broulee Island Sanctuary Zone	II	1.75
Lake Dalmeny (Mummaga Lake) Habitat Protection Zone	IV	1.74
Durras Lake Habitat Protection Zone	IV	1.74
Tomaga River Habitat Protection Zone	IV	1.63
North Head Sanctuary Zone	II	1.41
Buckenbowra River Sanctuary Zone	II	1.19
Malabar Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.96
Coila Lake and Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.92
Dignams Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.92
Pelican Inlet Sanctuary Zone	II	0.86
Nangudga Lake Sanctuary Zone	IV	0.81
Wallaga Lake Entrance Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.81
Waterfall Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.76
Bullengella Beach-Loader Beach Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.66
Meringo-Mullimburra Point Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.62
Meads Bay Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.60
Class 1 Special Purpose Zone	VI	0.59
Bingie Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.51
Clarks Bay-Freshwater Bay Sanctuary Zone	IV	0.49
North Head Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.47
Meads Bay Sanctuary Zone	II	0.46
Lake Tarourga Sanctuary Zone	II	0.41
Brou Lake South Sanctuary Zone	IV	0.37
Cullendulla Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.35
Shallow Crossing Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.34
North Durras Lake Sanctuary Zone	II	0.33
Couria Bay Sanctuary Zone	II	0.32
Batemans Bay Special Purpose Zone	VI	0.29
Brou Beach Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.28
Lake Brunderee Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.26
Punkalla Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.22
Narira Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.22
Brou Lake North Sanctuary Zone	II	0.21
Congo South Beach Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.20
Candlagan Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.20
Kianga Lake Sanctuary Zone	II	0.19
Montague Island (Inner) Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.17
Little Lake (South) Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.16
Bullengella Lake Sanctuary Zone	II	0.16
Forsters Bay Special Purpose Zone	VI	0.15
Kellys Lake Sanctuary Zone	II	0.13
Forsters Bay Sanctuary Zone	IV	0.12
Little Lake (North) Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.11
Meringo Lake Sanctuary Zone	II	0.10
Snake Island Special Purpose Zone	VI	0.09
Wagonga Head Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.05
Kioloa Creek Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.03
Merriwinga Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.03
Mill Bay Boat Ramp Special Purpose Zone	VI	0.03
Durras Beach Creek Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.02
Couria Bay Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.01
Bengello Creek Sanctuary Zone	II	0.01
Narooma Wharf Special Purpose Zone	VI	0.01
Black Bream Point Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.01
Jemisons Beach Creek Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.00
Freshwater Bay Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.00
Clarks Bay Habitat Protection Zone	IV	0.00

Habitats and blue carbon

Global Mangrove Watch maps 3.70 ha of mangroves inside the park in 2020.Global Mangrove Watch v3 · CC BY
The modelled kelp forest biome covers 77,380 ha of the park.Jayathilake & Costello 2020 · CC BY 4.0
Maxwell et al. (2024) map 200,669 tonnes of carbon in the top metre of tidal marsh soil inside the park, 288 tonnes per hectare on average.Maxwell et al. 2024 · CC BY 4.0

Pressures

Of the years 1985 to 2025, 2023 brought the most coral heat stress: averaged over the park, the year's highest Degree Heating Weeks reached 16.5 °C-weeks. NOAA counts 4 °C-weeks as bleaching likely and 8 as severe bleaching and mortality likely.NOAA Coral Reef Watch · Public domain
The 2013 cumulative human impact score (Halpern et al. 2015) averages 1.84 across the park, from 0.01 to 4.73.Halpern et al. 2015 · CC0 1.0

Data and research

363 of the 1,475 world map layers on Biohotspot with an open licence have data inside the park.
9 documents in the Biohotspot research library match the search “Batemans”.

Sources and licences

NOAA Coral Reef Watch, daily global 5 km satellite Degree Heating Week (v3.1), annual maxima 1985–2025 · NOAA Coral Reef Watch
Licence: Public domain (US Government work)
NOAA Coral Reef Watch. 2018, updated daily. NOAA Coral Reef Watch Version 3.1 Daily 5km Satellite Regional Virtual Station Time Series Data. College Park, Maryland, USA.
Cumulative human impacts: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures) · Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
Licence: CC0 1.0
Halpern, 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 authors
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Jayathilake 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 / Zenodo
Licence: CC BY (UNEP WESR catalogue entry); not stated on the UNEP-WCMC resources page or the Zenodo v3 page
Bunting, 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, DCCEEW
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (2025). Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2024 – Marine.
Global soil organic carbon in tidal marshes, version 2 (0–30 and 30–100 cm) · Maxwell, Spalding, Friess et al.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Maxwell T.L. et al. (2024) Soil carbon in the world's tidal marshes. Nat. Commun. 15, 10265. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54572-9

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.