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Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 79<br />
Flinders and Twofold Shelf Bioregions Marine Natural Values Study<br />
°C in the summer and 13.5 °C in the winter. The MS is influenced by the warm East<br />
Australian Current waters and the cooler Bass Strait waters. The continental slope is close<br />
and cold-water upwellings are frequent (ECC 2000). These upwellings provide nutrients to<br />
the inshore ecosystems, contributing to high productivity (ECC 2000). No estuaries or<br />
intermittent creeks run directly into the park as it is an isolated reef offshore from the coast<br />
(Table 28).There are no declared sites of geological or geomorphological or biotic<br />
significance in the MS (Figure 42).<br />
Table 28. Physical attributes of the Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary.<br />
Park Name<br />
Beware Reef<br />
Conservation status<br />
Marine Sanctuary<br />
Biophysical Region<br />
Twofold Shelf<br />
Size 220 ha (ranked 15 th of 24)<br />
Length of adjacent coastline 0 km<br />
Shoreline geology<br />
Granite<br />
Area with depth:<br />