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Ngari Capes Marine Park

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Nearest town or city
  
Busselton

Established
  
June 12, 2012

Area
  
1,238 kmĀ²

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Managing authorities
  
WA Department of Environment and Conservation WA Department of Fisheries

Website
  
Ngari Capes Marine Park

The Ngari Capes Marine Park is a protected marine park on the lower south west coast of Western Australia, located approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) south of Perth. The 123,790-hectare (305,900-acre) marine park was gazetted on 12 June 2012 (2012-06-12) and the park's western and southern boundaries are the Limit of Coastal Waters of the State of Western Australia, abutting the South-west Corner Commonwealth Marine Reserve, a marine reserve within the Australian Commonwealth exclusive economic zone.

Features

The dive wreck of HMAS Swan is located within the park waters, between Dunsborough and Cape Naturaliste.

The park includes a significant number of sanctuary, surfing, shore-based activity and recreation zones.

The largest sanctuary zones are East Geographe, Eagle Bay, Cape Naturaliste, Injidup, Cape Freycinet, Cape Leeuwin and East Flinders Bay. From the north to the south, some of the special sanctuary zones within the park are East Geographe, Central Geographe Bay, Eagle Bay, Eagle Bay Special Purpose Zone (shore-based activities), Cape Naturaliste, and Windmills Special Purpose Zone (surfing).

References

Ngari Capes Marine Park Wikipedia