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Coral Sea PSSA Expansion

The Coral Sea is an ecologically sensitive area that was designated as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area in 1990. In 2014-2015, Australia proposed expanding the existing Great Barrier Reef PSSA designation into the Coral Sea. The International Maritime Organization approved the proposal in May 2015, creating a new 564,000 square kilometer Coral Sea PSSA with three associated protective measures for shipping routes.

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Coral Sea PSSA Expansion

The Coral Sea is an ecologically sensitive area that was designated as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area in 1990. In 2014-2015, Australia proposed expanding the existing Great Barrier Reef PSSA designation into the Coral Sea. The International Maritime Organization approved the proposal in May 2015, creating a new 564,000 square kilometer Coral Sea PSSA with three associated protective measures for shipping routes.

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CORAL SEA PARTICULARLY

SENSITIVE SEA AREA


The Coral Sea is considered one of the most distinctive and undisturbed natural systems in the world.
It includes the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park which was made the world’s first Particularly Sensitive
Sea Area (PSSA) by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 1990.
In 2014-15 we submitted a proposal to the IMO to extend the existing Great Barrier Reef and Torres
Strait PSSA into the Coral Sea. The proposal was approved by the IMO Marine Environment Protection
Committee in May and came into effect in June. The new area covers approximately 564,000 square
kilometres of the Coral Sea.
Three Associated Protective Measures (a new recommendatory Area to be Avoided and two two-way
routes) accompanied the proposal (see page 75 and below chart).

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

SOLOMON SEA

PORT MORESBY
TORRES
STRAIT
PSSA
OUTER ROUTE

HOLMES REEF
TWO-WAY ROUTE

CORAL SEA

DIAMOND PASSAGE
AREA TWO-WAY ROUTE
CAIRNS TO BE
AVOIDED
CORAL SEA PSSA

TOWNSVILLE

MACKAY GREAT
BARRIER
REEF
PSSA

ROCKHAMPTON

QUEENSLAND

BRISBANE

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