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145°34.071'E 16-118 # # NATIONAL # LEGEND
16°20'S 16°20.350'S GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK 16°20'S Wonga 145°40.041'E Marine Park boundary MNP-15-1047 16-027 145°51.132'E CAIRNS / COOKTOWN MANAGEMENT AREA 16-088 16°21.239'S D a 16-007 PARK 146°10.456'E Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in t re # Management Area boundary e # Low Islands #
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# 16°30.001'S Backshore # 146°10.456'E 146°04.590'E 16°30'S MOUNT LEWIS ! Wentworth CP-16-4032 16°30'S Population centre (to scale) Craiglie Reef Hastings Reef 16°31.064'S 16°30.982'S Egmont 16-037 145°57.900'E 16-057 NATIONAL PARK Reef Jorgensen ! Population centre (symbolised)
16-038 Patch Hope Reef
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16-081 16°34.604'S 16°34.659'S # 145°56.981'E
# 16°34.865'S # Special Management Area P NATIONAL
16°35'S E Trinity 16°35'S N Garioch Reef CAIRNS PLANNING AREA IN MNP-16-1052 16°35.562'S S 16-082 (Plan of Management provisions apply) Public Appreciation boundary U L A Michaelmas Cay (NP) 16-800 16-089 Fin Reef
16°36.592'S 146°38.917'E 16-090 16-061 146°15.540'E THIS MAP IS INDICATIVE ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED FOR 4. Reefs, shoals and islands within the Great Barrier Reef Marine C 146°04.590'E O 16-043b b NAVIGATIONAL PURPOSES. Park are numbered west to east within one-degree bands. They are O D K 16°37.425'S 145°37.054'E #
E 16°37.516'S NOTES: prefixed with the latitude at the top of the band in which they lie. PARK # V
# E 1. The purpose of this map is to help interpret the Great Barrier Reef A centre point is used to determine the appropriate one-degree band L 145°34.083'E Pretty Patches O 16°38.225'S 16-062a Marine Park Zoning Plan 2003 and the Marine Parks (Great Barrier for features straddling parallels. Following the latitude band is the P Oyster Reef M Slip Cliff Point 16°38.719'S Reef Coast) Zoning Plan 2004. The zone boundaries shown on this numeric unique reef identifier. In addition, complex reef areas carry E 16-043a a c N Unity Reef (No 2) CP-16-4033 map are indicative only. Sub IDs in the form of alphabetic letters. 145°56.877'E
CP-16-4034 145°57.819'E T A 16-045b L Hartleys Creek a While care has been taken to illustrate zone boundaries as accurately 5. Islands, or parts of islands that form part of Queensland are not 16°39.570'S 16°39.843'S 16-044b 146°15.841'E ROAD MNP-16-1053 146°00.790'E as possible, users must refer to Schedule 1 of the Great Barrier Reef owned by the Commonwealth, and are not part of the Great Barrier Upolu 16°39.870'S 146°14.640'E
#
# Vlasoff Cay MNP-16-1054 Marine Park Zoning Plan 2003 and Schedule 1 of the Marine Parks Reef Marine Park. 16°40.260'S #
16°40'S 16°40.364'S 16°40'S ! Mount Molloy Cay (Great Barrier Reef Coast) Zoning Plan 2004 for precise boundary 6. The information displayed is held in the Great Barrier Reef Marine M # 16°40.619'S i (NP) 16°40.800'S tc P-16-14 descriptions. Park Authority Geospatial Data Library. This includes data provided h Red Cliff Point
e 16-046 16°41.269'S # l 2. Zone identifiers indicate the zone type, latitude and number of l KURANDA 16-091 by Geoscience Australia National Mapping Division (including the 16-092 Bay Euston Reef 16°41.520'S each zoned area. Zones numbered on this map: GEODATA product) and the Australian Hydrographic Office. Land HI 16-063 CAIRNS PLANNING AREA 145°34.332'E G 16-093 HWA 16°42.063'S CP - Conservation Park Zone tenure was derived from data supplied by the Queensland Department Y Simpson Point Arlington Reef (Plan of Management provisions apply) NATIONAL B - Buffer Zone of Environment and Resource Management, December 2009.
145°55.356'E 16-064 #
# # SR - Scientific Research Zone 7. While every effort has been made to show all features necessary to
Double Island # MNP - Marine National Park Zone make this map a useful general reference, map users are invited to 16-047 145°57.201'E # Flynn Reef Jenny Louise 145°56.906'E 16°43.514'S e P - Preservation Zone 145°56.238'E advise the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority of any errors, PARK g Shoal
146°15.360'E 16-065 a 16-066a 3. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Parks include the water column, omissions or other suggestions that would enhance this product. 146°00.00'E s R Haycock 16°44.400'S s i 146°14.197'E the subsoil beneath the seabed to a depth of 1000 metres below the Contact details are shown overleaf, or email to: v 16°44.409'S a e Island r Buchan Point P seabed and the airspace to 915 metres above the surface. [email protected] 16-048
Green Island (NP) # # CP-16-4035 # #
SR-16-2006 146°42.438'E 16°45'S 16-049 b 16°45'S Cook Bay MNP-16-1055 146°22.159'E # 16-094 n Taylor Point o 146°15.486'E 16°46.274'S Clifton Beach ft CP-16-4036 16°46.498'S 16°46.566'S a 16°46.809'S r Milln Reef Trinity Beach # G 16-067 146°17.235'E
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17-001a 146°47.967'E 16-056 146°11.555'E
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Mareeba NATIONAL # # Outer Shoal Gunjurra Island #
# 17-003a 16-078 16-801 d 16-079 SAFETY IN THE MARINE PARKS 17-074
17-075 Stagg 17°00.000'S 17°00.000'S People visit the Marine Parks at their own risk. Zoning Plans allow activities DAVIES # 17°00'S 17°00'S to take place, but do not guarantee safety. The Parks contain both natural CREEK 17-076 Patches NATIONAL 17-002a
# and human hazards. Park users should consult navigation charts, Notices to PARK
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Y B Hervey A R #
U 17°01.963'S 146°26.858'E of Environment and Resource Management for more specific information C E a Shoals
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IMPORTANT NOTES FOR MAP USERS # MNP-16-1061 #
# 17°04.086'S
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E # Queensland Marine Park Zoning Plans. Restrictions and/or closures under N 146°15.549'E N Gordonvale H 146°14.598'E IG M Queensland legislation (eg. Fisheries Regulation 1995 (Qld)) are not shown. E H u Noggin Reef K DANBULLA W Maori Reef A lg 17-025
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e # their particular activities before entering or using the Great Barrier Reef 145°59.180'E R 17°07.116'S iv Marine Park or the Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park. e 17-007
r 146°29.098'E 17°07.854'S MNP-16-1056 The inshore boundary of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park follows the 17-026
coastline of Queensland at low water except to the extent such waters R Tobias Spit 146°16.059'E 146°26.398'E 146°33.442'E iv 146°05.415'E are within the limits of the State of Queensland within the meaning of er High Island (NP)
NATIONAL # 145°58.480'E # 145°55.942'E 17-009 17°09.606'S 17-072 section 14 of the Seas & Submerged Lands Act 19731973, or where otherwise 17°09.586'S 17°09.586'S indicated (such as port areas). Any depiction of the inshore boundary # This map must not be used for marine navigation. WOOROONOORAN 17°10.107'S
17°10'S on this map is indicative only. NATIONAL 17°10'S Comprehensive and updated navigation PARK Flora Reef PARK 17-010 WARNING information should be obtained from published 17-011 17-014 17-027 hydrographic charts. 145°15'E 145°20'E 145°25'E 145°30'E 145°35'E 145°40'E 145°45'E 145°50'E 145°55'E 146°00'E 146°05'E 146°10'E 146°15'E 146°20'E 146°25'E 146°30'E 146°35'E 146°40'E 146°45'E 146°50'E 146°55'E 147°00'E Produced 15 April 2011 by Spatial Data Centre - Edition IV © Commonwealth of Australia (GBRMPA) 2011
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