AUSTRALIAN MARINE PARK
FIELD GUIDES

59 Australian Marine Parks exist around the country, located in Commonwealth waters beginning 3 nautical miles offshore and extending to the edge of the Exclusive Economic Zone, 200 nautical miles offshore.

These field guides are generated using over 2000 RLS surveys from over 500 sites within these AMPs.

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SOUTH WEST MARINE PARK NETWORK

Geographe Marine Park

CORAL SEA MARINE PARK

Coral Sea Marine Park - North
Coral Sea Marine Park - Central
Coral Sea Marine Park - South

TEMPERATE EAST MARINE PARK NETWORK

Cod Grounds Marine Park
Lord Howe Marine Park
Norfolk Marine Park
Solitary Islands Marine Park

LATEST IMAGES FROM OUR AMP SURVEYS

Glaucosoma hebraicum, Geographe Bay. Photo: Rick Stuart-Smith

Paristiopterus gallipavo, Geographe Bay. Photo: Rick Stuart-Smith
Queenfish (Scomberoides lysan) cruising past divers. Photo: Meryl Larkin.
Transect along the reef. Photo: Meryl Larkin.
RLS diver, Geographe Bay. Image: Rick Stuart-Smith

Blue devil (Paraplesiops meleagris), Geographe Bay. Image: Rick Stuart-Smith
Grey Reef Shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos. Photo by Yanir Seroussi.

Comet Wreck, Ashmore Reef. Photo by Yanir Seroussi.
Norfolk Island sunset. Image: Antonia Cooper

Moon wrasse (Thalassoma lutescens). Image: Antonia Cooper
Grey nurse shark (Carcharius taurus), Cod Grounds. Image: Rick Stuart-Smith

RLS Diver, Pimpernel Rock. Image: Rick Stuart-Smith
Symphorichthys spilurus, Rowley Shoals, Mermaid Reef. Image: Graham Edgar

Amphiprion perideraion, Rowley Shoals Mermaid Reef. Image: Graham Edgar
Female Pseudanthias squamipinnis, Coral Sea. Image: Andrew Green

Bobbing Booby, Coral Sea. Image: Andrew Green
Caranx ignobilis, Fredrick Reef. Photo by Graham Edgar.
Tropical reefs in the Coral Sea

Sub-tropical reef, Norfolk Island. Image: Antonia Cooper
RLS Diver, Kenn Reef. Photo by Graham Edgar

Kenn Reef, Coral Sea. Photo by Graham Edgar
RLS Diver, Kenn Reef. Photo by Graham Edgar.

Epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium ocellatum), Swain Reefs. Photo by GJE.
Lost chick, Bird Islet. Photo by GJE.

Nudibranch Nembrotha kubaryana, Swain Reefs. Photo by GJE.