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Protected areas of Queensland (Australia)
Queensland is the second largest mainland state in Australia. It contains 470 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 6,938,764 hectares (4.02% of the state’s area). 216 of these are National parks, which is the highest number of any Australian state or territory, totalling 6,587,093 hectares (3.81% of the state’s area). Seven others are Scientific National Parks, totalling 52,181 hectares (0.03% of the state’s area).
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Protected areas of Queensland
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[?]
- 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[?]
National Parks
- Alton
- Astrebla Downs
- Auburn River
- Barnard Island Group
- Barron Gorge
- Bendidee
- Black Mountain
- Blackbraes
- Blackdown Tableland
- Blackwood
- Bladensburg
- Blue Lake
- 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
- Chesterton Range
- Chillagoe-Mungana Caves
- Claremont Isles
- Cliff Island
- Clump Mountain
- Coalstoun Lakes
- Conondale
- Conway
- Crater Lakes
- Crows Nest
- Cudmore
- Culgoa Floodplain
- Currawinya
- Curtis Island
- D'Aguilar
- Daintree
- Dalrymple
- Davies Creek
- Deepwater
- Denham Group
- Diamantina
- Dipperu (Scientific)
- Dryander
- Dularcha
- Edmund Kennedy
- Ella Bay
- Endeavour River
- Epping Forest (Scientific)
- Erringibba
- 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
- Glasshouse 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
- Idalia
- Iron Range
- Isla Gorge
- Japoon
- Jardine River
- Keppel Bay Islands
- Keppel Bay Islands (scientific)
- Kondalilla
- Kroombit Tops
- Kurrimine Beach
- Lake Bindegolly
- Lakefield
- Lamington
- Lawn Hill
- Lindeman Islands
- Littabella
- Lizard Island
- Lochern
- Lumholtz
- Magnetic Island
- Main Range
- Mapleton Falls
- Maria Creek
- Mariala
- 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 Chinghee
- Mount Colosseum
- Mount Cook
- Mount Coolum
- Mount Etna Caves
- Mount Hypipamee
- Mount Jim Crow
- Mount Martin
- Mount O'Connell
- Mount Ossa
- Mount Pinbarren
- Mount Walsh
- Mount Webb
- Mowbray
- Mungkan Kandju
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Abbott Bay[?]
- 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:
- Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (http://www.env.qld.gov.au/environment/park/)
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