[3] The marine park's border extends up to the highest tidal mark and covers a total of 3,400 km2.

It includes waterways such as Coombabah Lake, sheltered inlets, open ocean, mangrove forests, swamps, marshes, tidal mudflats, sandflats and seagrass beds.

[1] In 1971, a total of 18 countries signed a Convention on Wetlands of International Significance.

Moreton Bay is among Australia's largest sites which is listed under the Ramsar Convention.

[5] Commencing in 2008, the Queensland Government has spent AU2$ million to create three artificial reefs within the marine park.

[13] Mud discharged into bay from the Brisbane River during the 2010–2011 Queensland floods smothered many marine ecosystems with sediment.