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Commonwealth Marine Reserves - Kimberley

148 images Created 12 Jun 2012

On the 14th of June 2012, Environment Minister Tony Burke released the final proposals for a series of Commonwealth Marine Reserves around Australia, including two off the Kimberley coast. The Kimberley Commonwealth Marine Reserve links up with the state's Camden Sound Marine Park, and the Argo-Rowley Terrace Commonwealth Marine Reserve Proposal takes in the waters around the Rowley Shoals.

The marine reserves contain several different zones, with differing levels of restriction.
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  • A Humpback whale surfaces west of Adele Island on the Kimberley coast.
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  • Rowleys clam_MG_3647.jpg
  • A colourful giant clam in shallow water at Clerke Lagoon, the Rowley Shaols.
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  • A giant clam in the Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • A magnificent Giant Clam in the Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • A giant clam in the Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • A giant fluted clam at the Rowley Shoals.
    Fluted clam_MG_4321.jpg
  • Brown boobies and terns swoop on a school of fish to the south of Adele Island.
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  • A flock of Brown boobies leave Adele Island to forage for food.
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  • A flock of Brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) leave Adele Island on the Kimberley coast at dawn in search of food.
    Boobies dawn Adele MG_5385.jpg
  • A flock of Brown Boobies rest on Adele Island, a major bird rookery on the Kimberley coast.
    Boobies Adele Island.jpg
  • A Greater Frigate bird in flight near Adele Island on the Kimberley coast.  The birds roost and nest on the island, the most remote island off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia.
    Frigate bird Adele Island 200810_306...jpg
  • A young Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) rests in coastal grassland on Adele Island on the remote Kimberley coast.  The chick is still shedding the last of its down.
    Booby chick Adele Island 210810_3585.jpg
  • A flock of Brown Boobies (Sula leucogaster) on the beach at Adele Island, on the Kimberley coast.
    Boobies Adele Island 210810_3431.jpg
  • A Masked Booby chick huddles next to a clump of grass on Adele  Island, the most remote island on the Kimberley coast.
    Booby chick 210810_3365.jpg
  • A young Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) rests on the beach at Adele Island, a major bird rookery and nesting site.
    Booby 230810_6195.jpg
  • Masked Booby parents guard their young chick at Adele Island, the most remote island off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia.
    Booby family 210810_3309.jpg
  • Brown Booby in flight over Adele Island on the Kimberley coast
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  • A masked Boobie chick shelters behind a grassy tussock on Adele Island.
    Boobie chick Adele 210810_3366.jpg
  • Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) parents tend to their chick on Adele Island, north Broome on the Kimberley coast.  Adele is an important nesting site and rookery for the birds.  Prior to this shot, one of the parents had chased away a Brown Booby.
    Masked Booby family 210810_3307.jpg
  • Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) parents tend to their chick on Adele Island, north of Broome on the Kimberley coast.  Adele is an important nesting site and rookery for the birds.  Prior to this shot, one of the parents had chased away a Brown Booby.
    Masked Booby family 210810_3306.jpg
  • Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) parents tend to their chick on Adele Island, north of Broome on the Kimberley coast.  Adele Island is an important nesting site and rookery for the birds.  Prior to this shot, one of the parents had chased away a Brown Booby.
    Masked Booby family 210810_3305.jpg
  • Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) parents tend to their chick on Adele Island, north of Broome on the Kimberley coast. Adele Island is an important nesting site and rookery for the birds.  Prior to this shot, one of the parents had chased away a Brown Booby.
    Masked Booby Family 210810_3302.jpg
  • A family of Masked Boobies (Sula dactylactra) on Adele Island, to the northof Broome.  Adele Island is an import bird and turtle nesting site.
    Masked Booby family 210810_3322.jpg
  • A family of Masked Boobies (Sula dactylactra) on the Lacepede Islands, to the northwest of Broome.  The Lacpedes are an import bird and turtle nesting site.
    Masked Booby Family 210810_3321.jpg
  • A young Brown Booby chick on Adele Island in the Buccaneer Archipelago.
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  • A masked booby adult and chick on Adele Island, the most remote island in the Buccaneer Achipelago,
    masked_boobies_Adele_Island_MG_0928.psd
  • A Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) on Bedwell Island at the Rowley Shoals.  Bedwell Island is considered an important resting site for migratory birds.
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  • A juvenile Sooty Tern stretches its wings on Bedwell Island at the Rowley Shoals.  The island, a small sand cay is an important resting spot for migratory birds.
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  • A  juvenile Sooty Tern on Bedwell Island, at the Rowley Shoals.
    Juvenile Sooty Tern_MG_4914.jpg
  • Remote Adele Island is the farthest island off the Kimberley coast.
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  • Remote Adele Island is the farthest island off the Kimberley coast.
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  • Birds fly over the extensive reef complex fringing Adele Island on the Kimberley coast.
    Reef Adele Island MG_1016.psd
  • Dawn breaks over the ocean near Adele Island off the Kimberley coast.  A small flock of birds are visible in the distance as they leave to forage for the day.
    Adele seascape MG_5426.jpg
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  • Two pairs of Masked boobies (Sula dactylatra) on Adele Island, the most remote island in the Buccaneer Archipelago.
    masked_boobies_adele_island_MG_0978.tif
  • Charter boat "Kimberley Escapee" at anchor near Adele Island.  Adele is the most remote of the islands in the Buccaneer Archiepelago and an important site for nesting seabirds.  It is also surrounded by an extensive reef system.
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  • The extensive reef system surrounding Adele Island on the Kimberley coast.
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  • The first rays of sunlight catch the sandspit at Adele Island.
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  • A lone tourist wanders on a sandspit on Adele Island, the farthest island from the Kimberley coast in the Buccaneer Archipelago.
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  • A lone tourist wanders on a sandspit on Adele Island, the farthest island from the Kimberley coast in the Buccaneer Archipelago.
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  • A Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) in a simple stone cairn on Bedwell Island at the Rowley Shoals.  This is one of only two colonies of Red-tailed Tropicbirds in Western Australia.
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  • Tourists from "MV Odyssey", one of the Kimberley charter boats, walk on Bedwell Island at the Rowley Shoals.  Bedwell Island is a small sand cay, home to one of Western Australia's two only colonies of Red-tailed Tropicbirds (Phaeton rubricauda), and an important resting site for migratory birds.
    Tourists Bedwell_MG_4967.jpg
  • A Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) shelters under a stone nest on Bedwell Island, at the Rowley Shoals.  Tropicbirds are sea birds, found in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans.  The birds nest under bushes and on cliffs.  A natural nest consists of a mere scrape in the ground under bushes.  On Bedwell Island, DEC have created stone shelters, which are monitored.
    Red tailed Tropic Bird_MG_4966.psd
  • Footsteps on Bedwell Island at the Rowley Shoals.  Approximately 260km west of Broome, only about 250 tourists visit the Rowley Shoals each year.  Bedwell Island is one of only two nesting sites for Red-tailed Tropicbirds, and an important resting site for migratory birds.
    Footsteps Bedwell_MG_4964.jpg
  • Aerial view of the Lacepede Islands, to the north west of Broome.  The Lacepede Islands were named by Nicolas Baudin in 1802 after the Compté de Lacepede, a great supporter of Baudin's, who wrote an important treatise on cetaceans.
    aerial view Lacepedes.jpg
  • A pair of Giant clams on Mermaid Reef at the Rowley Shoals.
    Clams IMG_6044.jpg
  • Corals in the shallows of "The Aquarium" in Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
    The Aquarium Clerke Lagoon_MG_3662.psd
  • A diversity of corals in "The Aquarium", Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shaols.
    The Aquarium Clerke Lagoon_MG_3550.psd
  • Colourful corals in Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
    Clerk Lagoon_MG_3563.psd
  • Corals in Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Corals Clerk_MG_3515.psd
  • Corals at "The Aquarium" in Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
    Corals Clerke Lagoon_MG_3553.psd
  • Corals Clerke lagoon_MG_3660.psd
  • Corals in The Aquarium, Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
    Corals The Aquarium Clerke_MG_3669.psd
  • "Cuddles" the Potato Cod at 'Cod Hole', Mermaid Reef.
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  • Naturalist and photographer Richard Costin films "Cuddles", a large Pototo Cod at the Rowley Shoals.
    Richard and Cuddles_MG_5831.jpg
  • "Cuddles" the Potato Cod at 'Cod Hole', Mermaid Reef.
    Cuddles_MG_5561.psd
  • A beautiful Gorgonian fan coral grows on "The Wall" at Mermaid Reef, the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Gorgonian fan corals grow in a cave on Mermaid Reef at the Rowley Shoals.
    Gorgonians Mermaid Reef_MG_5711.psd
  • A magnificent magenta soft coral on The Wall at Mermaid Reef at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Soft corals line "The Wall" at Mermaid Reef, at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Soft corals line "The Wall" at Mermaid Reef, at the Rowley Shoals.
    Soft Coral Mermaid Reef Wall_MG_5802.jpg
  • Parrot fish IMG_6084.jpg
  • Purple coral, staghorn coral and fish at "The Aquarium", Clerk Lagoon, Rowley Shoals.
    Purple corals_MG_3670.psd
  • Damsel fish swim over staghorn coral in Clerk Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Staghorn corals in "The Aquarium", Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shaols.
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  • Fish and corals in "The Aquarium" in Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
    Clerke Lagoon_MG_3659.psd
  • Coral and fish_MG_3439.jpg
  • Coral bleaching at "The Aquarium", in Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
    Coral bleaching_MG_3676.psd
  • Damsel fish and corals at the Rowley Shoals
    Blue Damsels_MG_3436.psd
  • A giant clam in the Clerke Channel at the Rowley Shoals.
    Clam_MG_3827.jpg
  • Giant Clams and corals at the Rowley Shoals.
    Clams Rowleys_MG_5148.psd
  • Diverse corals in the Clerke Channel at the Rowley Shoals.
    Corals Clerke Channel_MG_3741.jpg
  • Various corals in the Clerke Channel at the Rowley Shoals.
    Corals Clerke Channel_MG_3825.jpg
  • Fish in the shallows of the Clerke Channel at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Fish in the shallows of the Clerke Channel at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • A holothurian on the seabed in the Clerke Channel at the Rowley Shoals.
    Holothurian_MG_3783.jpg
  • Parrot Fish in the Clerke Channel, Rowley Shoals.  Parrot fish feed on algae on corals, and ingest large amounts of coral and sand, which contributes eventually to bottom sediments.  Closely related to wrasses, the fish undergo a sex change and display different colour patterns at various stages of growth.
    Parrot fish Clerke lagoon_MG_3682.jpg
  • Parrot Fish in the Clerke Channel, Rowley Shaols
    Parrotfish_MG_3684.jpg
  • Richard filming IMG_6016.jpg
  • Richard filming underwater_MG_3452.jpg
  • Saddle Butterflyfish in the Clerke Channel at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Saddle Butterflyfish in the Clerke Channel at the Rowley Shoals.
    Saddle Butterflyfish_MG_3699.jpg
  • Saddleback Butterflyfish_MG_3693.jpg
  • Colourful corals underwater at the Rowley Shoals
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  • Light bounces off the sandy bottom at the dive known at "Jimmy Goes to China" at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Reef fish underwater at Clerke Lagoon.
    Reef fish_MG_4269.psd
  • Large areas of bleached coral in Clerke Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
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  • Bleached corals in the Clerke  Lagoon at the Rowley Shoals.
    Bleached coral_MG_4327.psd
  • A small clam embedded in coral at the Rowley Shoals.
    Clam and corals_MG_4558.jpg
  • Tridacna crocea, a small clam, embedded in coral at the Rowley Shoals. Tridacna crocea grows to a maximum of 10mm and lives in small cracks on shallow reef flats.
    Clam in coral_MG_3471.psd
  • A school of yellow fish watched by film-maker Richard Costin at the Rowley Shoals.
    Yellow fish IMG_4135.jpg
  • Tiny blue Damselfish swim above a lump of bleached Staghorn coral in Clerke Lagoon.
    Damselfish and coral_MG_4333.psd
  • A diver with an underwater camera at the Rowley Shoals.
    Ginnie with camera IMG_4131.jpg
  • Film-maker and naturalist Richard Costin surfaces from scuba diving at the Rowley Shoals
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  • Naturalist and film-maker Richard Costin filming underwater at the Rowley Shoals.
    Richard filming IMG_4230.jpg
  • Coral bleaching_MG_4292.jpg
  • Reef fish underwater at Clerke Lagoon.
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  • Richard filming_MG_4283.psd
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