Avoid Bay Islands Conservation Park

Protected area in South Australia

34°36′50.65″S 135°17′13.04″E / 34.6140694°S 135.2869556°E / -34.6140694; 135.2869556Established2 May 1968^[2]Area32 hectares (79 acres)^[2]Managing authoritiesDepartment for Environment and WaterSee alsoProtected areas of South Australia

The Avoid Bay Islands Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia occupying three islands located west-southwest of Coffin Bay on the 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.^[1]^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 25 November 2014)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
^ Anon (2006). Island Parks of Western Eyre Peninsula Management Plan (PDF). Adelaide: Department for Environment and Heritage (DEH), South Australia. pp. 6–7. ISBN 1-921238-18-6.

External links

Avoid Bay Islands Conservation Park webpage on protected planet

Protected areas of South Australia

Conservation reserves

Wilderness Protection Areas

Other protected areas

Arkaroola Protection Area

Former protected areas

Related topics

Marine protected areas of South Australia
List of protected areas in Adelaide

Islands of South Australia

West coast of Eyre Peninsula

Generally	Avoid Bay Islands Black Rocks Sudden Jerk Baird Bay Jones Unnamed Cap Eba Germein Greenly Liguanea Neptune Islands Nicolas Baudin Nuyts Reef Olive Pigface Price Purdie Rocky Island (north) Rocky Island (south) Sinclair Curta Rocks Whidbey Isles Four Hummocks Perforated Price Island Golden Williams
Investigator Group	Flinders Pearson Isles Pearson Dorothee Veteran Isles Topgallant Waldegrave Islands Ward Islands
Nuyts Archipelago	Blefescu Breakwater Evans Eyre Franklin Gliddon Reef Goat Isles of St Francis Dog Egg Fenelon Freeling Hart Masillon Smooth St Francis West Lacy Lounds Lilliput Purdie Islands St Peter

Spencer Gulf

Generally	Bicker Isles Bird Boston Curlew Entrance Gambier Islands Wedge Grantham Goose Green Lipson Louth Rabbit Shag Tumby Wardang Weeroona
Jussieu Peninsula coastline	Carcase Rock Donington Grindall Hopkins Lewis Little Owen Smith Taylor Thistle
Sir Joseph Banks Group	Blyth Boucaut Dalby Dangerous Reef Duffield English Hareby Kirkby Langton Lusby Marum Partney Reevesby Roxby Seal Rock Sibsey Spilsby Stickney Winceby
Pondalowie Bay	Royston Middle South

Investigator Strait

Althorpe Islands
- Althorpe
- Haystack
- Seal
Chinamans Hat

Kangaroo Island

Main article	Kangaroo Island
Nepean Bay	Beatrice Islets Busby Islet Pelican Lagoon Islets
West and south coasts	Casuarina Islets Douglas Rock Lipson Reef Nobby Islet North Rock Paisley Islet Pelorus Islet South West Rock Unnamed island (Hanson Bay) Young Rock