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]

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

See also

References

External links

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