Marine park · New South Wales

Jervis Bay 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
215 km²
IUCN category Ia
0.0 %
Gazetted
1998
Open layers with data
308

The park

Area by IUCN category
IUCN categorykm²Share
IV15672.4 %
II42.319.7 %
VI17.18.0 %
Named zones in CAPAD
ZoneIUCNkm²
Jervis Bay Habitat Protection ZoneIV155
Hyams Beach Sanctuary ZoneII16.0
Hammer Head/Crookhaven Bight General Use ZoneVI12.9
Hare Bay Sanctuary ZoneII9.02
St Georges Head-Steamers Head Sanctuary ZoneII7.26
Point Perpendicular - Crocodile Head Sanctuary ZoneII4.05
Wreck Bay General Use ZoneVI3.90
Huskisson Sanctuary ZoneII2.27
Hammer Head Sanctuary ZoneII1.98
Groper Coast Sanctuary ZoneII0.60
Hyams Beach Habitat Protection ZoneIV0.35
The Docks Sanctuary ZoneII0.28
HMAS Creswell Special Purpose ZoneVI0.26
Upper Currambene Creek Sanctuary ZoneII0.25
The Tubes Seasonal Anchoring Area Habitat Protection ZoneIV0.20
Currambene Creek Mudflats Sanctuary ZoneII0.17
Bowen Island Sanctuary ZoneII0.12
Moona Moona Creek Sanctuary ZoneII0.10
Huskisson Wharf Special Purpose ZoneVI0.09
Wowly Gully Sanctuary ZoneII0.09
Drum and Drum Sticks Sanctuary ZoneII0.07
Shark Net Beach Sanctuary ZoneII0.06
Red Point Sanctuary ZoneII0.06
Blacks Cave Creek Sanctuary ZoneII0.00

Habitats and blue carbon

Pressures

Data and research

  • 308 of the 1,475 world map layers on Biohotspot with an open licence have data inside the park.
  • 2 documents in the Biohotspot research library match the search “Jervis Bay”.

Left out

  • Global Mangrove Watch (2020) and the Sanderman et al. (2018) map disagree on how much mangrove is here, so neither the mangrove area nor the mangrove soil carbon is shown.

Sources and licences

  • 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)
  • 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.