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10 images Created 7 Jul 2021

Face masks floated all the way to Lord Howe Island

Face Masks washed onto the shores of remote Lord Howe Island whilst the island was in lockdown. The masks came from a cargo ship that lost 50 containers in rough seas south of Sydney while transiting from China to Melbourne. Lord Howe Island is a remote World Heritage listed island located 800 kilometres north-east of Sydney, the waters surrounding the island support the world’s southern-most tropical coral reef. Targeted beach clean-ups were undertaken by enthusiastic residents and debris collected from the island, and from beaches on Australia’s eastern coast, will form part of a maritime investigation. Regardless of the outcome, the full environmental impact of discarding a significant volume of waste into the open ocean will never be fully quantified.
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  • A face mask from the APL England container spill caught on hard coral surrounded by red algae. The shallow reefs surrounding Lord Howe are dominated by a unique mix of coral and algae.
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  • A face mask from the APL England container spill is washed into shallow water off Lord Howe Island and investigated by a grey drummer. Around 440 species of fish occur in these waters, fourteen are endemic to the region.
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  • Lord Howe Island supports the world's southern-most tropical coral reef that is home to many unusual and endemic species. The island was declared a World Heritage site in 1982, and the waters have been protected by the Lord Howe Island Marine Park since 1999.
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  • A face mask is photographed on Neds Beach following the APL England container spill. Reports were received by the Lord Howe Island Marine Park initially from concerned residents that collected and photographed the face masks  on all sides of the island depending on prevailing wind and swell.
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  • A mosaic of masks insitu, washed onto the shoreof Lord Howe Island  from the APL England container spill. The image shows 30 masks washed up at various locations on the island, over 1000 masks were collected in total.
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  • Targetted beach clean-ups were conducted by concerned residents, staff from the Lord Howe Island Board and Lord Howe Island Marine Park with face masks collected from shallow water, beaches, and rocky headlands surrounding the island.
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  • Jessie Krick is an island resident that collected these 17 face masks during a morning walk with her father, Steve Krick, on a local beach.
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  • The Lord Howe Island Plastic Action Group have placed bins at popular locations to help monitor marine debris washing up around the island. The face masks were placed in these as well as specially marked bins to monitor the number of face masks collected.
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  • Caitlin Woods (bottom) and Sallyann Gudge (top) from the Lord Howe Island Marine Park count individual face masks and bags of face masks washed onto the shores of Lord Howe Island as a result of the APL England container spill.
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  • A pelagic Columbus crab finds shelter in a plastic bag of face masks from the APL England container spill.. Much of the marine debris from the container spill are stll drifting on ocean currents, the full environmental impact will never be fully quantified.
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