Marine park · Northern Territory

Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area

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
4,326 km²
IUCN category Ia
0.0 %
Gazetted
2001
Open layers with data
199

The park

Area by IUCN category
IUCN categorykm²Share
V4,326100.0 %

Habitats and blue carbon

Pressures

  • Of the years 1985 to 2025, 2025 brought the most coral heat stress: averaged over the park, the year's highest Degree Heating Weeks reached 9.2 °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 2.24 across the park, from 0.03 to 4.86.Halpern et al. 2015 · CC0 1.0

Data and research

  • 199 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 “Dhimurru”.

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

  • 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)
  • 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.

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.