Bremer Marine Park

Bremer Marine Park protects habitats ranging from shallow coastal waters to the deep ocean.

The park includes deep undersea canyons (in the Albany Canyons group) that funnel cool nutrient-rich waters upwards. This boosts marine life, which in turn provides food for marine mammals and seabirds.

Nature-watching tourism is increasingly popular here. Killer whales (orcas) and southern right whales are the stars of the show.

The Noongar people have responsibilities for Sea Country in the park.

The park is approximately half-way between Albany and Esperance, offshore from Fitzgerald River National Park. It covers 4472 square kilometres, with depths from 15 metres to 5,000 metres with an average depth of 1,654 metres.  

It has National Park and Special Purpose (Mining Exclusion) zones.

Explore

Meet a killer whale or a southern right whale on a nature-watching cruise.

Discover

Killer whales (also known as orcas) are the largest members of the dolphin family, growing to over nine metres long and weighing up to 4000 kilograms.

These top-order marine predators sometimes work cooperatively to hunt. Their prey includes:

• fish
• squids
• seabirds
• marine mammals.

Video

This flythrough video shows the bathymetry of the Bremer Canyon, as well as the adjacent Hood, Henry and Knob Canyons. These canyons form part of the Albany Group, and the Bremer Canyon is one of the few canyons within this group which has cut into the continental shelf. This provides a pathway for deep nutrient-rich water to upwell onto the continental shelf, and is thought to be part of the reason this area attracts such diverse and abundant marine life. 

Publications

To access peer-reviewed scientific articles and publications about our marine parks, visit Scientific publications.

Select the park area on the map below to see what you can do in the Bremer Marine Park.