Marine park · New South Wales
Lord Howe Island 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
- 469 km²
- IUCN category Ia
- 0.0 %
- Gazetted
- 1999
- Open layers with data
- 164
The park
- Lord Howe Island covers 469 km².CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- CAPAD 2024 holds 12 records for this park.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- It has 11 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 1999 (CAPAD gazettal date).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
| IUCN category | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| IV | 338 | 72.2 % |
| II | 130 | 27.8 % |
| VI | 0.02 | 0.0 % |
| Zone | IUCN | km² |
|---|---|---|
| Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 338 |
| Balls Pyramid Sanctuary Zone | II | 65.1 |
| East Coast and Shelf Sanctuary Zone | II | 56.7 |
| Lord Howe Island Lagoon Sanctuary Zone | II | 5.19 |
| Admiralty Islands and Neds Beach Sanctuary Zone | II | 2.72 |
| North Bay Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.38 |
| Observatory Rock Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.04 |
| North Bay Wreck Special Purpose Zone | VI | 0.01 |
| Sylphs Hole Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.01 |
| Erscotts Hole Special Purpose Zone | VI | 0.01 |
| Neds Beach Special Purpose Zone | VI | 0.00 |
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
- Of the years 1985 to 2025, 2024 brought the most coral heat stress: averaged over the park, the year's highest Degree Heating Weeks reached 18.3 °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 3.57 across the park, from 2.84 to 4.31.Halpern et al. 2015 · CC0 1.0
Data and research
- 164 of the 1,475 world map layers on Biohotspot with an open licence have data inside the park.
- 5 documents in the Biohotspot research library match the search “Lord Howe Island”.
Sources and licences
- NOAA Coral Reef Watch, daily global 5 km satellite Degree Heating Week (v3.1), annual maxima 1985–2025 · NOAA Coral Reef WatchLicence: 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 1.0Halpern, 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.