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).
... of Martin Gerritz de Vries[?] in the 17th century, and still better from those of La Pérouse (1787) and Krusenstern (1805). Both, however, regarded it as a peninsula, and ...