Marine park · Tasmania
River Derwent Marine Conservation 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
- 16.4 km²
- IUCN category Ia
- 0.0 %
- Gazetted
- 1941
- Open layers with data
- 46
The park
- River Derwent covers 16.4 km².CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- CAPAD 2024 holds 2 records for this park.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 Conservation Area.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- Its managing authority in CAPAD is NRE_TAS.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- It was gazetted in 1941 (CAPAD gazettal date).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
| IUCN category | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VI | 16.4 | 100.0 % |
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 622 ha of the park.Jayathilake & Costello 2020 · CC BY 4.0
- Maxwell et al. (2024) map 149,131 tonnes of carbon in the top metre of tidal marsh soil inside the park, 309 tonnes per hectare on average.Maxwell et al. 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Data and research
- 46 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 “River Derwent”.
Sources and licences
- 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.
- 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.