Southern Kangaroo Island Marine Park (state waters)

Southern Kangaroo Island Marine Park is a marine protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in state coastal waters adjoining both the south coast of Kangaroo Island and a group of islets located to the south of Kangaroo Island. The marine park was established on 29 January 2009 under the Marine Parks Act 2007. The marine park consists of two areas of water. The first is the portion of state waters on the southern coast of Kangaroo Island to a distance of 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) from ‘median high water’ from the western end of the Seal Bay Conservation Park in the west to the southern headland of D'Estrees Bay in the east including the waters around Pelorus Islet. The second is the extent of state waters around the following exposed islets located about 27 kilometres (17 mi) south-west of Cape Gantheaume - North Rock, Young Rocks and South West Rock. The marine park is divided into zones to manage the marine environment to ensure varying degrees of “protection for habitats and biodiversity” and varying levels of “ecologically sustainable development and use” as follows: One “restricted access zone” which underlays the full extent of the Seal Bay Aquatic Reserve and part of the Seal Bay Conservation Park. One “sanctuary zone” that occupies the full extent of the marine park iat its western end and where “the removal or harm of plants, animals or marin

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