Notifiable Instrument_Whitsundays No-Anchoring Areas

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Declaration of No-Anchoring Areas —Townsville/Whitsunday Management Area) Notifiable Instrument 2021

I, Joshua Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (the Authority), acting under paragraph 5(2)(b) of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 2019 (the Regulations) as delegate of the Authority, and having had regard to the matters in subsection 5(3) of the Regulations, declare that on the date of commencement of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment (No-Anchoring Areas) Regulations 2021:

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Declaration of Whitsundays No-Anchoring Areas) Notifiable Instrument 2020, dated 13 July 2020, is revoked; and
Each of the areas shown on the maps in Schedules 1, 2 and 3, inshore or enclosed by the no-anchoring area boundary line, is a no-anchoring area for the purposes of the definition of no-anchoring area in subsection 5(1) of the Regulations.

Dated 21 May 2021

Joshua Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Contents

Schedule 1 — Orpheus and Magnetic Islands no-anchoring areas		3
	Overview Map	3
	1a — Pioneer Bay, Orpheus Island	4
	1b — Yanks Jetty, Orpheus Island	4
	1c — Florence Bay, Magnetic Island	5
	1d — Arthur Bay, Magnetic Island	5
	1e — Picnic Bay, Magnetic	6
Schedule 2 — Bowen no-anchoring area		7
	2a — Horseshoe Bay, Bowen	7
Schedule 3 — Whitsunday Planning Area no-anchoring areas		8
	Overview Map	8
	3a — Bait Reef	9
	3b — Blue Pearl Bay, Hayman Island	9
	3c — Black Island	10
	3d — Langford Island	10
	3e — East and West Butterfly Bay, Hook Island	11
	3f — Maureen’s Cove, Hook Island	11
	3g — Luncheon Bay and Manta Ray Bay, Hook Island	12
	3h — Pinnacle Bay, Hook Island	12
	3i — Crayfish Beach — Mackerel Bay South, Hook Island	13
	3j — Saba Bay, Hook Island	13
	3k — False Nara, Hook Island	14
	3l — Caves Cove, Hook Island	14
	3m — South Stonehaven/ Baird Point, Hook Island	15
	3n — Cockatoo Point/ North Stonehaven, Hook Island	15
	3o — Cairn Beach, Whitsunday Island	16
	3p — Cateran Bay, Border Island	16
	3q — Dumbell Island	17
	3r — Sunlover’s Bay, Daydream Island	17
	3s — Sandy Bay, South Molle Island	18
	3t — Chalkies Beach, Haslewood Island	18

Schedule 1—Orpheus and Magnetic Islands no-anchoring areas

Schedule 2—Bowen no-anchoring area

Schedule 3—Whitsunday Planning Area no-anchoring areas