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This Schedule describes the values represented in the Coral Sea Marine Park.
Values are broadly defined as:
  * Natural values—habitats, species and ecological communities within marine parks, and the processes that support their connectivity, productivity and function.
  * Cultural values—living and cultural heritage recognising Indigenous beliefs, practices and obligations for country, places of cultural significance and cultural heritage sites.
  * Heritage values—non-Indigenous heritage that has aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance.
  * Socio-economic values—the benefit of marine parks for people, businesses and the economy.
Values will be used to inform the Director's decisions when authorising activities in marine parks. Activities will be assessed in relation to their impacts and risk to values, to ensure activities are undertaken in a manner that minimises impacts to as low as reasonably practicable (Section 4.3 Making decisions about activities).
As understanding of marine park values improves over time, updated information will be available on the Parks Australia website.
Other sources of information on marine park values can be found on the Department's website, in particular, for protected species (species profile and threats database), wetlands (Australian wetlands directory), heritage places (Australian heritage database), and shipwrecks (Australian national shipwrecks database), and in the East marine bioregional plan: bioregional profile (2009).
Coral Sea Marine Park
The Coral Sea Marine Park (Figure S2.1) is located east of the Great Barrier Reef adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, extending from Cape York Peninsula, to approximately 40 km north of Bundaberg in Queensland. The Marine Park starts between 60 km and 1100 km from the coast of Australia and extends to the limit of Australia's exclusive economic zone.
The Marine Park covers an area of 989,836 km², with waters down to 6000 m deep.
The Marine Park was proclaimed under the EPBC Act on 14 December 2013 and renamed Coral Sea Marine Park on 9 October 2017. It includes the areas of the Coral Sea Conservation Zone originally proclaimed under the EPBC Act on 14 May 2009 and the Coringa-Herald and Lihou Reef National Nature Reserves originally proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 on 16 August 1982. The Marine Park is assigned IUCN category IV and includes four zones assigned under this plan: National Park Zone (II), Habitat Protection Zone (IV), Habitat Protection Zone (Reefs) (IV) and Special Purpose Zone (Trawl) (VI).
Coordinates for the Coral Sea Marine Park and zones are provided in Figures S2.1 to S2.18 and Schedule 4.
Statement of significance
The Coral Sea Marine Park was designed to protect representative examples of the region's ecosystems and biodiversity in accordance with the Goals and principles for the establishment of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas in Commonwealth waters (ANZECC,