Avoid Bay Islands Conservation Park
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Avoid Bay Islands Conservation Park South Australia |
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IUCN category Ia (strict nature reserve)
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Nearest town or city | Coffin Bay. |
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Established | 2 May 1968[1] |
Area | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value).[1] |
Managing authorities | Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources |
See also | Protected areas of South Australia |
The Avoid Bay Islands Conservation Park comprises three islands located west-southwest of Coffin Bay, lower Eyre Peninsula. The group, which includes Black Rocks and Sudden Jerk Island (also known as Avoid Island), supports breeding populations of seabirds and marine mammals. Colonies of the endangered Australian Sea-lion (Neophoca cinerea) and protected New Zealand Fur-seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) occur on some of these islands. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.[2][3]
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