Proclamation - Tasman Fracture Marine Park
Part 3Special Purpose Area Zone (IUCN Category VI — Managed Resource Protected Area)
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Part 3—Special Purpose Area Zone (IUCN Category VI – Managed Resource Protected Area)
All of that area within the Southern Ocean contained within and bounded as follows**:
(i) commencing at the point of latitude 44 degrees 36 minutes south, longitude 144 degrees east; (ii) then east along the parallel of latitude 44 degrees 36 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 145 degrees 35 minutes 48 seconds east; (iii) then south‑westerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 44 degrees 56 minutes south, longitude 145 degrees 21 minutes east; (iv) then south along the meridian of longitude 145 degrees 21 minutes east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 45 degrees 45 minutes south; (v) then west along the parallel of latitude 45 degrees 45 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 144 degrees 40 minutes east; (vi) then south‑easterly along the geodesic to the intersection of the meridian of longitude 145 degrees 1 minutes 54 seconds east, with the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone***; (vii) then generally westerly along the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 144 degrees east; and (viii) then north along the meridian of longitude 144 degrees east, to the point of commencement.