Gulf of Carpentaria Marine Park

Conservation values

Species and habitat

• Important resting area for turtles between egg laying, for the threatened: flatback turtle and green turtle.
• Important foraging habitat for breeding aggregations of the: migratory brown booby, migratory lesser frigatebird, migratory roseate tern, listed marine crested tern.

  Bioregions and ecology

• Examples of the ecosystems of the Northern Shelf Province provincial bioregion.
• Gulf of Carpentaria coastal zone.
• Gulf of Carpentaria basin.
• Plateau and saddle north-west of the Wellesley Islands.
• Submerged coral reefs of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

  History

Summary of protection zones