Marine park · Western Australia

Ngari Capes 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: 1,225 km²
IUCN category Ia: 0.0 %
Gazetted: 2012
Open layers with data: 299

The park

Ngari Capes covers 1,225 km².CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
CAPAD 2024 holds 36 records for this park.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
It has 29 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 WA_DBCA (Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, WA).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
It was gazetted in 2012 (CAPAD gazettal date).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0

Area by IUCN category
IUCN category	km²	Share
VI	1,225	100.0 %

Named zones in CAPAD
Zone	IUCN	km²
Cape Freycinet Sanctuary Zone	VI	39.0
East Geographe Bay Sanctuary Zone	VI	21.3
Cape Leeuwin Sanctuary Zone	VI	20.1
Injidup Sanctuary Zone	VI	18.3
Cape Naturaliste Sanctuary Zone	VI	9.79
Eagle Bay Sanctuary Zone	VI	9.15
East Flinders Bay Sanctuary Zone	VI	7.73
Central Geographe Bay Sanctuary Zone	VI	5.72
Margaret River Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	4.30
Lefthanders Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	2.06
Flinders Island Sanctuary Zone	VI	1.67
Cosy Corner Sanctuary Zone	VI	1.36
Three Bears Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	0.93
Hamelin Bay Recreation Zone	VI	0.76
Windmills Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	0.73
Cowaramup Bay Recreation Zone	VI	0.71
Yallingup Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	0.51
Gallows/Guillotine Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	0.35
Kilcarnup Sanctuary Zone	VI	0.25
Eagle Bay Special Purpose Zone (shore-based activities)	VI	0.17
Wyadup Sanctuary Zone	VI	0.15
Cosy Corner Special Purpose Zone (shore-based activities)	VI	0.12
Moses Beach Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	0.11
Hamelin Island Sanctuary Zone	VI	0.08
Moses Rock Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	0.08
Redgate Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	0.05
Goannas Special Purpose Zone (surfing)	VI	0.04
Yallingup Sanctuary Zone	VI	0.03
Busselton Jetty Sanctuary Zone	VI	0.01

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 107,358 ha of the park.Jayathilake & Costello 2020 · CC BY 4.0

Pressures

Of the years 1985 to 2025, 2011 brought the most coral heat stress: averaged over the park, the year's highest Degree Heating Weeks reached 25.3 °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 2.75 across the park, from 0.32 to 4.34.Halpern et al. 2015 · CC0 1.0

Data and research

299 of the 1,475 world map layers on Biohotspot with an open licence have data inside the park.
2 documents in the Biohotspot research library match the search “Ngari Capes”.

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)
Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) · UNEP-WCMC / Zenodo
Licence: CC BY (UNEP WESR catalogue entry); not stated on the UNEP-WCMC resources page or the Zenodo v3 page
Bunting, 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, 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.