Oceanic Shoals Marine Park

Conservation values

Species and habitat

• Important resting area for turtles between egg laying, for the threatened flatback turtle and olive ridley turtle.
• Important foraging area for the threatened loggerhead turtle and olive ridley turtle.

  Bioregions and ecology

• Examples of the ecosystems of two provincial bioregions: the Northwest Shelf Transition Province and the Timor Transition Province.
• Carbonate bank and terrace system of the Van Diemen Rise.
• Carbonate banks of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf.
• Pinnacles of the Bonaparte Basin.
• Shelf break and slope of the Arafura Shelf.

  History

Summary of protection zones