Marine park · New South Wales
Solitary Islands 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
- 724 km²
- IUCN category Ia
- 0.0 %
- Gazetted
- 1998
- Open layers with data
- 248
The park
- Solitary Islands covers 724 km².CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- CAPAD 2024 holds 90 records for this park.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- It has 30 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 1998 (CAPAD gazettal date).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
| IUCN category | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| IV | 394 | 54.4 % |
| VI | 243 | 33.6 % |
| II | 86.8 | 12.0 % |
| Zone | IUCN | km² |
|---|---|---|
| Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 373 |
| General Use Zone | VI | 243 |
| Northern Section Sanctuary Zone | II | 36.8 |
| Southern Section Sanctuary Zone | II | 29.0 |
| Central Section Sanctuary Zone | II | 17.0 |
| Chopper Rock, Surgeons Reef and North West Solitary Island Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 8.25 |
| Sandon Shoals Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 6.51 |
| North Solitary Island Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 1.63 |
| South Solitary Island Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 1.29 |
| Wooli Wooli River and Diggers Camp (Northern Section) Sanctuary Zone | II | 1.00 |
| Sandon River System (Northern Section) Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.96 |
| Split Solitary Island Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 0.92 |
| North West Rock Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 0.90 |
| Wooli Wooli River Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 0.61 |
| Corindi River System Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.56 |
| North Solitary Island Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.35 |
| Minnie Water Back Beach Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 0.25 |
| Moonee Beach Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 0.25 |
| Special Purpose Zone 4 (Arrawarra Headland) | VI | 0.24 |
| Jones Point Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.23 |
| North West Solitary Island Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.22 |
| Flat Top Point Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.21 |
| Station Creek Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.20 |
| Bare Bluff to Diggers Point Habitat Protection Zone | IV | 0.18 |
| Special Purpose Zone 2 (Wooli Wooli River Oyster Aquaculture) | VI | 0.18 |
| South Solitary Island Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.13 |
| Split Solitary Island Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.13 |
| North West Rock Sanctuary Zone | II | 0.10 |
| Special Purpose Zone 1 (Sandon River Oyster Aquaculture) | VI | 0.05 |
| Special Purpose Zone 3 (Pipe Clay Lake Habitat Rehabilitation) | VI | 0.02 |
Habitats and blue carbon
- The modelled kelp forest biome covers none of the park.Jayathilake & Costello 2020 · CC BY 4.0
- Maxwell et al. (2024) map 81,490 tonnes of carbon in the top metre of tidal marsh soil inside the park, 286 tonnes per hectare on average.Maxwell et al. 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Pressures
- The 2013 cumulative human impact score (Halpern et al. 2015) averages 2.30 across the park, from 0.01 to 5.05.Halpern et al. 2015 · CC0 1.0
Data and research
- 248 of the 1,475 world map layers on Biohotspot with an open licence have data inside the park.
- 3 documents in the Biohotspot research library match the search “Solitary Islands”.
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 1.0Halpern, 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)
- 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.
- Global soil organic carbon in tidal marshes, version 2 (0–30 and 30–100 cm) · Maxwell, Spalding, Friess et al.Licence: CC BY 4.0Maxwell 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.