evidence: Ashmore Reef Marine Park is in the Australian External Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands, 630 kilometres north of Broome and 111 kilometres south of the Indonesian island of Roti. [...] The Ashmore Reef Ramsar Site lies entirely within Ashmore Reef Marine Park. It was declared because the islands and surrounding waters are important for the seabirds, shorebirds and other marine life they support. [...] Ashmore Reef and the nearby Cartier Island Marine Park provide great habitats for them. The number and types of seasnakes were once high.