The Shoalwater Islands Marine Park is a
protected
Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although th ...
marine park located in
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
and stretches from the northern point of the
Garden Island Causeway to the southern point of
Becher Point
Becher Point is the southernmost point of Warnbro Sound in Port Kennedy in Western Australia. It was the site of multiple ship beachings. It is a reference point for the adjacent Ramsar Becher Point Wetlands that lie inland from the point. It off ...
. The marine park is located offshore from the suburban locality of
Shoalwater.
Several small limestone islands are located within the boundaries of the park, including
Penguin Island and
Seal Island.
See also
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Protected areas of Western Australia
Western Australia is the second largest country subdivision in the world. It contains no fewer than separate Protected Areas with a total area of (land area: – 6.30% of the state’s area). Ninety-eight of these are National Parks, totalli ...
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Islands of Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia hosts a variety of unique and biologically diverse habitats found nowhere else on Earth. Many of these habitats include islands. Islands provide habitat and safe refuge for endangered native fauna as they are free of in ...
References
Further reading
*Crane, Kevin, Carolyn Thomson and Peter Dans.(1995) ''Discovering Penguin Island and the Shoalwater Islands Marine Park''. Como, W.A. Dept.of Conservation and Land Management.
* Thomson-Dans, Carolyn.(2005) ''Shoalwater Islands Marine Park.'' Landscope (Como, W.A), Autumn 2005, p. 52-53.
External links
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Marine parks of Western Australia
Shoalwater Marine Park