Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) · aus
Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula
- Area
- 226 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1982
Overview
- Designation
- Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
- Established
- 1982
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 149 distinct species · 1 368 906 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula : 18 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 21 lakes · 8 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
43,0km
Lake surface here
25,06km²
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
8 796km²
Discharge in basins
8,5m³/s
Mean precip.
563mm/an
Mean T°
14,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,47
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
191mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
69m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #72770sub-area116,4 km²overlap53.36 km²24%
- Bassin de Little Riversub-area620,9 km²overlap50.08 km²22%
- Bassin de Barwon Riversub-area264,3 km²overlap32.60 km²14%
- Basin #72740sub-area31,4 km²overlap31.24 km²14%
- Bassin de Werribee Riversub-area1 453,6 km²overlap9.01 km²4%
- Bassin de Cowies Creeksub-area364,8 km²overlap7.47 km²3%
- Bassin de Skeleton Creeksub-area260,3 km²overlap3.87 km²2%
- Bassin de Grasmere Creeksub-area1 338,7 km²overlap2.41 km²1%
- Bassin de Hovells Creeksub-area244,7 km²overlap1.45 km²1%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (21, top by area)
- Lake Connewarrearea8,1 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lake #84956area2,9 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #84959area2,6 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #84961area2,4 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #84958area1,6 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #84962area1,4 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lake #84954area1,2 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lake Borrie Pond 9area1,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #84960area1,1 km²avg depth0.8 m
12 more lakes
- Lac 1426901area1 km²avg depth2.0 m
- Lac 1426878area0,8 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1426896area0,7 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1426973area0,6 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1426898area0,4 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1426969area0,3 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lac 1426983area0,3 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 1426911area0,2 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lac 1426907area0,1 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1426905area0,1 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lac 1426974area0,1 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 1426881area0,1 km²avg depth0.9 m
Rivers / streams (8, ord ≥ 4)
- Barwon Riverord 5len here16.75 km9%total183 km
- Little Riverord 4len here10.55 km15%total71 km
- Werribee Riverord 4len here4.26 km4%total106 km
- Lollypop Creekord 2len here3.98 km18%total22 km
- Cherry Creekord 1len here3.92 km42%total9 km
- Hovells Creekord 3len here2.41 km8%total30 km
- Skeleton Creekord 2len here0.68 km4%total18 km
- Armstrong Creekord 1len here0.48 km6%total8 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -37.98853, 144.59720
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.