Marine parks: South Australia
- Biohotspot has pages for 25 marine parks in South Australia.
- Together they cover 27,230 km²; where parks overlap, the area is counted once.
- 9.1 % of that area (2,487 km²) is in zones of IUCN category Ia, strict nature reserve.
The parks
| Park | km² | IUCN Ia |
|---|---|---|
| Adelaide | 119 | 0.0 % |
| Barker Inlet-St Kilda | 29.6 | 0.0 % |
| Eastern Spencer Gulf | 786 | 0.0 % |
| Encounter | 3,163 | 0.0 % |
| Far West Coast | not shown | not shown |
| Franklin Harbor | 638 | 0.0 % |
| Gambier Islands Group | 120 | 0.0 % |
| Great Australian Bight | 1,246 | 0.0 % |
| Investigator | 1,189 | 0.0 % |
| Lower South East | 358 | 0.0 % |
| Lower Yorke Peninsula | 857 | 0.0 % |
| Neptune Islands | 144 | 100.0 % |
| Neptune Islands Group | 146 | 2.2 % |
| Nuyts Archipelago | 4,017 | 0.0 % |
| Sir Joseph Banks Group | not shown | not shown |
| Southern Kangaroo Island | 672 | 0.6 % |
| Southern Spencer Gulf | 2,979 | 0.0 % |
| St Kilda-Chapman Creek | 14.3 | 0.0 % |
| The Pages | 70.3 | 100.0 % |
| Thorny Passage | 2,477 | 0.0 % |
| Upper Gulf St Vincent | 1,037 | 8.4 % |
| Upper South East | 904 | 0.0 % |
| Upper Spencer Gulf | 1,614 | 0.0 % |
| West Coast Bays | 791 | 0.4 % |
| Western Kangaroo Island | 1,021 | 0.0 % |
“Not shown”: some of the park’s zones overlap in CAPAD, so its area is not the sum of its zone areas (see its page).
Source and licence
- 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 has a page when it covers at least 10 km², at least 3 open habitat or pressure layers have data inside it, and at least one habitat, carbon or pressure figure is measured inside it. Computed on 2026-10-27.