Cape Banks, La Perouse, NSW, Australia.
S 33° 59.999 E 151° 14.930
56H E 338273 N 6236463
Cape Banks is an area of headland, cliffs and rock platforms on a rocky promontory consisting of Hawkesbury sandstone. The rock formations are used for research and educational purposes by university groups.
Waymark Code: WMVBMF
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 03/28/2017
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Cape Banks Aquatic Reserve was established as a marine research site in the 1940s, and has been Australia's most prominent and world recognised site for marine research since the 1960s.
It includes the whole foreshore from the bridge at Cape Banks to the Endeavour Light at Henry Head, and extends 100m seaward from mean low water.
All five major habitats are found here, including platforms, crevices, rock-pools, boulders and cobbles, resulting in a diversity of intertidal communities.
The reserve is surrounded by the Botany Bay National Park and the NSW golf course, both providing a substantial buffer from human influences ensuring the naturalness of this very beautiful site.
Register of the National Estate (Non-statutory archive)
Class Natural
Legal Status Registered (28/09/1982)
Place ID 1772
Place File No 1/12/030/0033
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