Protected areas of Queensland
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Queensland is the second largest state in Australia. It contains around 500 separate protected areas. In 2020, it was estimated a total of 14.2 million hectares or 8.25% of Queensland's landmass was protected.[1]
List of terrestrial protected areas[]
Conservation Parks[]
- Anderson Street
- Bird Island
- Cape Pallarenda
- Coolmunda
- Coombabah Lake
- Currimundi Lake
- [2]
- Fraser Island
- Fleays Wildlife Park
- Indooroopilly Island
- Lark Quarry
- Malanda Falls
- Mon Repos
- Mount Scoria
- Mouth of Baffle Creek 1
- Mouth of Baffle Creek 2
- (27°54′00″S 153°23′34″E / 27.9000°S 153.3928°E)[3]
- Spicers Gap Road
- [4]
- Toohey Forest
- White Rock
Conservation Reserves[]
- Mount Glorious
Feature Protection Areas[]
- (20 different areas)
National Parks[]
- Alton
- Alwal
- Annan River
- Astrebla Downs
- Auburn River
- Barnard Island Group
- Barron Gorge
- Beeron
- Bendidee
- Black Mountain
- Blackbraes
- Blackdown Tableland
- Blackwood
- Bladensburg
- Blue Lake
- Boodjamulla National Park (formerly Lawn Hill)
- Bowling Green Bay
- Brampton Islands
- Bribie Island
- Broad Sound Islands
- Brook Islands
- Bulleringa
- Bunya Mountains
- Burleigh Head
- Burrum Coast
- Byfield
- Camooweal Caves
- Cania Gorge
- Cape Hillsborough
- Cape Melville
- Cape Palmerston
- Cape Upstart
- Capricorn Coast
- Capricornia Cays
- Capricornia Cays (scientific)
- Carnarvon
- Castle Tower
- Cedar Bay (now part of )
- Chesterton Range
- Chillagoe-Mungana Caves
- Claremont Isles
- Clump Mountain
- Coalstoun Lakes
- Conondale
- Conway
- Crater Lakes
- Crows Nest
- Cudmore
- Culgoa Floodplain
- Currawinya
- Curtis Island
- D'Aguilar
- Daintree
- Dalrymple
- Davies Creek
- Deepwater
- Deer Reserve
- Denham Group
- Diamantina
- Dipperu (Scientific)
- Dryander
- Dularcha
- Edmund Kennedy
- Ella Bay
- Endeavour River
- Epping Forest (Scientific)
- Erringibba
- Esk
- Eubenangee Swamp
- Eudlo Creek
- Eungella
- Eurimbula
- Expedition
- Fairlies Knob
- Family Islands
- Ferntree Creek
- Fitzroy Island
- Flinders Group
- Forbes Islands
- Forest Den
- Fort Lytton
- Forty Mile Scrub
- Frankland Group
- Freshwater
- Girraween
- Girringun (Lumholtz)
- Glass House Mountains
- Gloucester Island
- Goneaway
- Goodedulla
- Goodnight Scrub
- Goold Island
- Great Basalt Wall
- Great Sandy
- Green Island
- Grey Peaks
- Halifax Bay Wetlands
- Hann Tableland
- Hasties Swamp
- Hell Hole Gorge
- Hinchinbrook Island
- Holbourne Island
- Homevale
- Hope Islands
- Howick Group
- Hull River
- Humboldt
- Idalia
- Iron Range
- Isla Gorge
- Japoon
- Jardine River
- Junee
- Keppel Bay Islands
- Keppel Bay Islands (scientific)
- Kirrama
- Kondalilla
- Kroombit Tops
- Kuranda
- Kurrimine Beach
- Lake Bindegolly
- Lakefield
- Lama Lama
- Lamington
- Lindeman Islands
- Littabella
- Lizard Island
- Lochern
- Lockyer
- Macalister Range
- Magnetic Island
- Main Range
- Malaan
- Mapleton Falls
- Maria Creek
- Mariala
- Marpa
- Mazeppa
- Michaelmas and Upolu Cays
- Millstream Falls
- Minerva Hills
- Mitchell-Alice Rivers
- Molle Islands
- Moogerah Peaks
- Mooloolah River
- Moorrinya
- Moresby Range
- Moreton Island
- Mount Aberdeen
- Mount Archer
- Mount Barney
- Mount Bauple (Scientific)
- Mount Binga
- Mount Chinghee
- Mount Colosseum
- Mount Cook
- Mount Coolum
- Mount Etna Caves
- Mount Hypipamee
- Mount Jim Crow
- Mount Lewis
- Mount Martin
- Mount O'Connell
- Mount Ossa
- Mount Pinbarren
- Mount Walsh
- Mount Webb
- Mowbray
- Mungkan Kandju
- Naree Budjong Djara
- Narkoola
- Narrien Range
- Newry Islands
- Nicoll Scrub
- Noosa
- North East Island
- Northumberland Islands
- Nuga Nuga
- Nymph Island
- Orpheus Island
- Palmerston Rocks
- Palmgrove (Scientific)
- Paluma Range
- Peak Range
- Pinnacles
- Pioneer Peaks
- Pipeclay
- Piper Islands
- Poona
- Porcupine Gorge
- Possession Island
- Precipice
- Quoin Island
- Ravensbourne
- Reliance Creek
- Repulse Island
- Restoration Island
- Rocky Islets
- Round Top Island
- Rundle Range
- Russell River
- Sandbanks
- Sarabah
- Saunders Islands
- Simpson Desert
- Sir Charles Hardy Group
- Smith Islands
- Snake Range
- South Cumberland Islands
- South Island
- Southern Moreton Bay Islands
- Southwood
- Springbrook
- St Helena Island
- Staaten River
- Starcke
- Sundown
- Swain Reefs
- Tamborine
- Tarong
- Taunton (Scientific)
- The Palms
- Three Islands
- Thrushton
- Topaz Road
- Tregole
- Triunia
- [5]
- Tully Gorge
- Turtle Group
- Two Islands
- Undara Volcanic
- Venman Bushland
- Welford
- West Hill
- White Mountains
- Whitsunday Islands
- Wild Cattle Island
- Wondul Range
- Wooroonooran
- Yungaburra
Resources Reserves[]
- Amamoor Forest
- Bouldercombe Gorge
- Palmer Goldfield
Scientific Areas[]
- (29 different areas)
List of marine protected areas[]
Marine protected areas within the Queensland jurisdiction consist of fish habitat areas declared under the Fisheries Act 1994 and marine parks declared under the Marine Parks Act 2004.[6][7][8]
Fish habitat areas[]
Fish habitat areas are listed in two lists - 'A' and 'B'.[6]
List 'A'[]
- Annan River
- Baffle Creek
- Beelbi
- Bowling Green Bay
- Broad Sound
- Burrum
- Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam
- Cawarral Creek
- Cleveland Bay
- Colosseum Inlet
- Corio Bay
- Dallachy Creek
- Deception Bay
- Edgecumbe Bay
- Eight Mile Creek
- Elliott River
- Escape River
- Eurimbula
- Fitzroy River
- Hay's Inlet
- Hinchinbrook
- Hull River
- Jumpinpin-Broadwater
- Kauri Creek
- Kinkuna
- Kippa-Ring
- Maaroom
- Margaret Bay "Wuthathi
- Maroochy River
- Meunga Creek
- Moreton Banks
- Morning Inlet - Bynoe River
- Murray River
- Myora - Amity Banks
- Nassau River
- Noosa River
- Peel Island
- Pine River Bay
- Princess Charlotte Bay
- Pumicestone Channel
- Repulse
- Rodds Harbour
- Sand Bay
- Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill
- Silver Plains
- Staaten-Gilbert
- Starcke River (Ngulun)
- Susan River
- Temple Bay
- Tin Can Inlet
- Trinity Inlet
- Tully River
- West Hill
- Wreck Creek
List 'B'[]
- Annan River
- Barr Creek
- Bassett Basin
- Beelbi
- Bohle River
- Burdekin
- Burrum
- Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam
- Cattle-Palm Creek
- Colosseum Inlet
- Coombabah
- Coomera
- Currumbin Creek
- Deception Bay
- Edgecumbe Bay
- Fraser Island
- Half Moon Creek
- Halifax
- Kolan River
- Margaret Bay "Wuthathi"
- Maroochy River
- Midge
- Noosa River
- Pimpama
- Pine River Bay
- Pumicestone Channel
- Rodds Harbour
- Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill
- Starcke River (Ngulun)
- Tallebudgera Creek
- Trinity Inlet
- West Hill
- Yorkeys Creek
Marine parks[]
The Queensland jurisdiction only included the following three marine parks as of 2016; the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is located within the Australian government's jurisdiction.[6]
See also[]
- Protected areas of Australia
References[]
- ^ "Qld govt to buy land for protected areas". yahoo!news. Yahoo!. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Daisy Hill Conservation Park – conservation park in City of Logan (entry 44165)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ "Pine Ridge Conservation Park – conservation park in Gold Coast City (entry 39603)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^ "Tingalpa Creek Conservation Park – conservation park in City of Brisbane (entry 44097)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ "Tucherkoi National Park". Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ a b c "Queensland - Marine Protected Areas by Type (2016) (please refer 'Detailed list' tab)". CAPAD 2016. The Department of Environment and Energy. 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ^ "About marine parks". Queensland Government. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ^ "Declared Fish Habitat Area Network Strategy 2015 - 2020" (PDF). Queensland Government. 2015. p. 17. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ^ a b c "Marine parks (Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing)". Retrieved 15 May 2016.
External links[]
Categories:
- Protected areas of Queensland
- National parks of Queensland
- Lists of protected areas of Australia
- Lists of tourist attractions in Queensland