

Ocean Week Victoria Celebrates Our Big Blue Backyard
CELEBRATE AND EXPLORE
OCEAN WEEK VICTORIA
JUNE 2023

WORLD OCEANS DAY
Ocean Week Victoria is a volunteer initiative to bring our wider community together around World Oceans Day (WOD).
The celebration of World Oceans Day dates back to the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit. Here, a team from Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) proposed an annual Oceans Day to create a voice for the oceans, to empower those who live and work in coastal communities, and to strengthen the management and stewardship of the oceans.
Each year, the United Nations selects a theme to engage the global community. This year’s theme is “Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean—Shedding light on the communities, ideas, and solutions that are working together to protect and revitalize the ocean and everythi