Victor Island

Victor Island had stable hard coral cover (around 30%) until TC Debbie (2017), which saw a sharp drop accompanied by a rise in macroalgae. Further losses followed the 2020 region-wide accumulated heat stress event however recent surveys show a positive trend in hard coral.

Presence of disease in the inshore coral communities of Mackay and Hay Point has fluctuated over 13 years of monitoring. Severe bleaching, however, has only been recorded alongside the region-wide accumulated sea surface temperature peaks in 2020.