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Ningaloo Marine Park
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The Ningaloo Marine Park stretches for 260km from Bundegi Beach near Exmouth to Amherst Point south of Coral Bay. This makes it one of the largest fringing reefs in the world. The reef crest lies as close as 100m off the coast in some places and at its furthermost point it is 4km off shore.
Photo courtesy of Tony Howard from the Department of Environment and Conservation.
The Ningaloo Reef has over 200 species of Hard corals, approx 50 species of soft corals and an estimated 500 species of fish. The reef is also home to manta rays, turtles, humpback whales and is only one of two places in the world where the Whaleshark regular visits. To protect this unique resource, the Ningaloo Marine Park was declared in 1987 and encompasses about 224,000ha of State controlled waters and approx 700km squared of Commonwealth waters.
This reef is unique because it is one of only two coral reefs in the world that have formed on the western side of a continental land mass. Predominantly there are anti clockwise equatorial currents in the southern hemisphere. Usually these currents carry cold water up the western coast from the Antarctic and warm water down the eastern side of continents from the equator, however, in Western Australia the Leeuwin counter current carries a stream of warm water down the Western Australian coast. This enables reefs such as the Ningaloo, Abrolhos and Rottnest reefs to form and survive. |
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