PROCLAMATION
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under subsection 390D(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 declare the area specified in the Schedule to be a conservation zone.
Signed and sealed with the
Great Seal of Australia
on -3 OCT 2002
PETER HOLINGWORTH
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
David Alistair Kemp
Minister for the Environment and Heritage
Schedule
Conservation Zone Area
All of those waters of the exclusive economic zone in the Southern Ocean, and the seabed under those waters to a depth of 1,000 metres, contained within and bounded as follows*:
(a) the area bounded by the line:
(i) commencing at the point of latitude 51 degrees 50 minutes south, longitude 70 degrees 54 minutes east;
(ii) then along the geodesic in a generally north westerly direction to the point of intersection between the meridian of longitude 70 degrees 40 minutes east and the treaty line defined by Article 2 of the Maritime Delimitation Treaty agreed between the Government of Australia and the Government of the French Republic in January 1982 (the Treaty boundary);
(iii) then along the Treaty boundary in a generally north easterly direction to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 71 degrees 10 minutes east;
(iv) then along the geodesic in a generally south easterly direction to the point of latitude 51 degrees 38 minutes south, longitude 71 degrees 24 minutes east; and
(v) then along the geodesic in a generally south westerly direction to the point of commencement.
(b) the area bounded by the line:
(i) commencing at the point of latitude 52 degrees 57 minutes south, longitude 72 degrees 08 minutes east;
(ii) then along the geodesic in a generally north westerly direction to the point of latitude 52 degrees 25 minutes 30 seconds south, longitude 71 degrees 32 minutes 30 seconds east;
(iii) then along the geodesic in a generally north easterly direction to the point of latitude 52 degrees 12 minutes 30 seconds south, longitude 72 degrees 02 minutes 30 seconds east;
(iv) then along the geodesic in a generally south easterly direction to the point of latitude 52 degrees 43 minutes 30 seconds south, longitude 72 degrees 38 minutes east; and
(v) then along the geodesic in a generally south westerly direction to the point of commencement.
(c) the area bounded by the line:
(i) commencing at the point of latitude 50 degrees 57 minutes south, longitude 74 degrees 53 minutes east;
(ii) then along the geodesic in a generally north westerly direction to the point of intersection between the meridian of longitude 74 degrees 25 minutes east and the Treaty boundary;
(iii) then along the Treaty boundary in a generally north easterly direction to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 75 degrees east;
(iv) then along the geodesic in a generally south easterly direction to the point of latitude 50 degrees 57 minutes south, longitude 75 degrees 45 minutes east; and
(v) then west along the parallel of latitude 50 degrees 57 minute to the point of commencement.
(d) the area bounded by the line:
(i) commencing at the point of latitude 51 degrees 44 minutes south, longitude 75 degrees 27 minutes east;
(ii) then east along the parallel of latitude 51 degrees 44 minute south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 77 degrees 13 minutes east;
(iii) then along the geodesic in a generally south easterly direction to the point of latitude 51 degrees 55 minutes south, longitude 77 degrees 29 minutes east;
(iv) then west along the parallel of latitude 51 degrees 55 minute south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 75 degrees 35 minutes east; and
(v) then along the geodesic in a generally north westerly direction to the point of commencement.
* All geographic coordinates are expressed in terms of the World Geodetic System 1984 ("WGS84").