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Marine protected area in the Great Australian Bight, off South Australia This article is about the marine protected area in the Great Australian Bight. For the region in South Australia, see Eyre Western.

Western Eyre Marine Park Australia
Western Eyre Marine Park
Nearest town or city	Streaky Bay, South Australia
Coordinates	34°13′01″S 134°21′38″E / 34.2169°S 134.3605°E / -34.2169; 134.3605
Established	8 December 2012 (2012-12-08)
Area	57,946 km (22,373.1 sq mi)
Managing authorities	Director of National Parks
Website	Western Eyre Marine Park
Footnotes	Coordinates Nearest town

Western Eyre Marine Park (formerly Western Eyre Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is a marine protected area located in the Great Australian Bight south of South Australia in waters within the Australian Exclusive economic zone.

It was gazetted in November 2012.

The marine park consists of three zones - a marine national park zone (IUCN Category II) which occupies three separate areas of ocean with a total area of 17,439 square kilometres (6,733 square miles), a multiple use zone (IUCN Category VI) with an area of 16,107 square kilometres (6,219 square miles) and a special purpose zone (IUCN Category VI) with an area of 24,400 square kilometres (9,400 square miles).

It is part of the group of Australian marine parks known as the South-West Marine Park Network.

It lies east of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park.

Notes

^ "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Commonwealth Marine Reserves) Proclamation 2012 - F2012L02188". Commonwealth of Australia, Comlaw. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
^ "Western Eyre Commonwealth Marine Reserve". Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
"Summary of Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas by Type (refer "Detailed List" tab)". Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD). Department of the Environment. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
^ "Western Eyre Commonwealth Marine Reserve - Maps". Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
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This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 AU licence. Required attribution: © Commonwealth of Australia 2013

Protected areas managed by the Australian Government

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North-west Marine Park Network	Carnarvon Canyon Shark Bay Gascoyne Ningaloo Montebello Dampier Rowley Shoals Eighty Mile Beach Argo-Rowley Terrace Mermaid Reef Roebuck Kimberley Ashmore Reef Cartier Island
North Marine Park Network	Oceanic Shoals Joseph Bonaparte Gulf Arafura Arnhem Wessel Limmen Gulf of Carpentaria West Cape York
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Temperate East Marine Park Network	Jervis Hunter Cod Grounds Solitary Islands Central Eastern Gifford Lord Howe Norfolk
South-east Marine Parks Network	Apollo Beagle Boags East Gippsland Flinders Franklin Freycinet Huon Macquarie Island Murray Nelson South Tasman Rise Tasman Fracture Zeehan

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