Report
Above and below, Boags Marine Park is teeming with life. The shallow waters of central Bass Strait are home to diverse soft sediment communities dominated by crustaceans, molluscs and polychaete worms typical of the Bass Strait Shelf Province. Boags Marine Park also provides important foraging grounds for nearby breeding colonies of seabirds, and habitat for southern right and pygmy blue whales.
Boags Marine Park is located off the northwest tip of Tasmania, just north of Three Hummock Island and wholly within the Bass Strait, covering 537 square kilometres. It is a Multiple Use zone. – Parks Australia
Boags ranges from 15 to 62 metres depth, with an average depth of 45 metres. The majority of the Park (>99%) falls within the mesophotic zone (30-70 metres) [view on map]. The mapped area of the seafloor are dominated by Plane (22%) and Apron (4%) morphological features [view on map].
No public seafloor imagery (Squidle+) is currently available for this Park.
Read more about the Boags State of Knowledge (Parks Australia).
What's known about the Boags marine park?
Habitat and bathymetry summaries last refreshed August 2024. Habitat observations are refreshed weekly from data providers.
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