Description of the Particularly Sensitive Sea Area
To minimize the
risk of damage from ship groundings and pollution damage by international shipping
activities and to protect the area's unique and threatened species as well as to
preserve as far as practicable its critical habitat and diversity, mariners should
exercise extreme care when navigating in the area bounded by the geographical
coordinates of the Particularly Sensitive Sea Area, provided below, and adhere to
the Associated Protective Measures set out in annex 4.
All geographical
positions are based on WGS 84. Listed number refer to figure 1.
No.
|
Latitude
|
Longitude
|
1
|
11°10.00'S
|
151°53.00'E
|
2
|
11°26.00'S
|
151°59.90'E
|
3
|
11°26.00'S
|
152°08.24'E
|
4
|
11°23.00'S
|
152°13.00'E
|
5
|
11°10.00'S
|
152°13.00'E
|
Figure 1 – Map showing the PSSA and newly established
IMO routeing systems