Location
Key Information
| 0.02 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 1.92 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Boundary: Departement of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (Unmodified)
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October 2022
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Purpose
To identify, conserve and protect the natural and cultural values of the park and botanic garden an to offer world class natural and cultural experiences, that improve understanding of the values of the reserves and enhance the Norfolk Island regional economy. Set in the south-west Pacific, Norfolk Island National Park provides a link between tropical and temperate oceanic island environments. Norfolk’s remote location, coupled with Norfolk Island’s colonisation by plants and animals dispersed over vast distances of ocean, means the park has unique vegetation assemblages with many endemic species. The park contains historic sites and artefacts that illustrate the social development of the island and its people since early settlement. The park contains sites that support ongoing traditional and cultural practices undertaken by the local community
Species of Concern: sooty tern, white tern, black noddy, red-tailed tropic bird
Regulations Summary
Restrictions
1. A person must not do one of the following acts in a Commonwealth reserve except in accordance with a management plan in operation for the reserve:
a) kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move a member of a native species;
b) damage heritage;
c) carry on an excavation;
d) erect a building or other structure;
e) carry out works; or
f) take an action for commercial purposes.
2. Mining operations are prohibited.
Allowed
Activities that are prohibited or restricted by the EPBC Regulations may be carried on if they are authorised by a permit issued by the Director, if they are carried on in accordance with a management plan, or if another exception applies.