Protected areas of Queensland

Queensland is the second largest state in Australia. It contains 472 separate protected areas with a total land area of 69,388 km² (4.02% of the state’s area). 223 of these are National parks, which is the highest number of any Australian state or territory, totalling 65,871 km² (3.81% of the state’s area). Seven others are Scientific National Parks, totalling 522 km² (0.03% of the state’s area).

List of protected areas

Conservation Parks

Anderson Street
Archer Point
Baddow Island
Baffle Creek
Bakers Creek
Baldwin Swamp
Barubbra Island
Baywulla Creek
Beachmere
Beelbi Creek
Bell Creek
Bird Island
Blackwater
Bloomfield River
Bloomsbury
Boat Mountain 1
Boat Mountain 2
Bottle Creek
Boyne Island
Broadwater
Buccan
Buckleys Hole
Bullock Creek
Bullyard
Bunya Mountains
Burleigh Knoll
Byron Creek
Cabbage Tree Point
Caloundra
Cape Pallarenda
Carbrook Wetlands
Carello Palm Swamp
Carraba
Causeway Lake
Charon Point
Combo 1
Combo 2
Coolmunda
Cooloothin
Coombabah Lake
Cressbrook
Currimundi Lake
Currumbin Hill
Dawson River
Delicia Road
Denmark Hill
Djilgarin
Duggan
Dwyers Scrub
Etty Bay Road
Eudlo Creek
Fraser Island
Five Rocks
Flagstone Creek
Fleays
Fleays Wildlife Park
Flinders Peak
Futter Creek
Garden Island
Goat Island
Goat Island (Noosa River)
Granville
Great Sandy
Gurgeena
Hallorans Hill
Harry Spring
Hays Inlet 1
Hays Inlet 2
Highworth Bend
Horseshoe Bay Lagoon
Horseshoe Lagoon
Indooroopilly Island
Ipswich Pteropus
Irongate
Jack Smith Scrub
Jalum
Joseph Banks (Round Hill Head)
Jumrum Creek
Kamerunga
Keatings Lagoon
Keppel Sands
Keyser Island
King Island
Kirrama
Knapp Creek
Kurrimine Beach
Lake Broadwater
Lake Murphy
Lark Quarry
Limestone Creek
Long Island Bend
Malanda Falls
Maroochy River
Meingan Creek
Millstream
Mon Repos
Mooloolah (Marie Higgs)
Morven
Mount Beau Brummell
Mount Blarney
Mount Cooroy
Mount Dumaresq
Mount Eerwah
Mount Hector
Mount Hopeful
Mount Kinchant
Mount Leura
Mount Perry
Mount Scoria
Mount Whitfield
Mouth of Baffle Creek 1
Mouth of Baffle Creek 2
Mouth of Kolan River
Myora
Neurum Creek
Newport
North Pointer
O'Regan Creek
Palm Creek
Palmview
Pine Ridge
Plunkett
Police Paddock
Princhester
Reinke Scrub
Rosins Lookout
Round Island
Roundstone
Serpentine Creek
Sheep Island
Sheep Station Creek
Shoalwater Bay
Six Mile Creek
Skull Knob
South Stradbroke Island 1
South Stradbroke Island 2
Spicers Gap Road
Springwood
St Helens Gap
Tallebudgera Creek
Tinana Creek
Tinana Island
Tolderodden
Tomewin
Toohey Forest
Tooloombah Creek
Toorbul
Townsville Town Common
Tuchekoi
Vandyke Creek
Vernon
Wararba Creek
Warrina
Weyba Creek
White Blow
White Rock
White Rock (Limited Depth)
Wilandspey
Woongoolba
Zamia Creek

Feature Protection Areas

Big Ironbark
Booroobin
Goggrell's Tree
Jowarra
Rosehall
Unnamed (20 different areas)
Western Creek

Marine Parks^[1]

Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park
Great Sandy Marine Park
Moreton Bay Marine Park

National Parks

Resources Reserves

Abbott Bay
Amamoor Forest
Bouldercombe Gorge
Cooloola (Noosa River)
Flat Top Range
Heathlands
Iron Range (Lockhart River)
Kennedy Road Gravel
Lawn Hill (Arthur Creek)
Lawn Hill (Creek)
Lawn Hill (Gorge Mouth)
Lawn Hill (Gregory River Base)
Lawn Hill (Gregory)
Lawn Hill (Lilydale)
Lawn Hill (Littles Range)
Lawn Hill (Stockyard Creek)
Lawn Hill (Widdallion)
Moonstone Hill
Morgan Park
Mount Rosey
Munburra
Palmer Goldfield
Stones Country

Scientific Areas

Bald Mountain
Helidon Hills
Melaleuca
Mynea Creek
Nerang
Northbrook
Palgrave
Saltwater Creek
Stoney Range
The Lagoons
Unnamed (29 different areas)
Wordoon

References

↑ "Marine parks (Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing)". Retrieved 15 May 2016.

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