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Lord Howe Island Marine Park (commonwealth waters)
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Lord Howe Island Marine Park (Commonwealth waters) is a 3000.63 km² marine park
managed by the Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Heritage, protecting the waters surrounding Lord Howe Island
. It is adjacent to the 465.45 km² Lord Howe Island Marine Park
managed by the Marine Parks Authority New South Wales.
Marine park
A marine park is a park consisting of an area of sea sometimes protected for recreational use, but more often set aside to preserve a specific habitat and ensure the ecosystem is sustained for the organisms that exist there...
managed by the Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Heritage, protecting the waters surrounding Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, and about from Norfolk Island. The island is about 11 km long and between 2.8 km and 0.6 km wide with an area of...
. It is adjacent to the 465.45 km² Lord Howe Island Marine Park
Lord Howe Island Marine Park
Lord Howe Island Marine Park consists of the waters 3 nautical miles off Lord Howe Island, Balls Pyramid and a New South Wales state marine park. The waters 3 to 12 nautical miles from Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid were declared a federal marine park on 21 June 2000, see Lord Howe Island...
managed by the Marine Parks Authority New South Wales.