Protected areas of Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the smallest mainland state in Australia. It contains a staggering 1966 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 3,378,021 hectares (14.84% of the state’s area). 36 of these are National parks, totalling 2,577,435 hectares (11.32% of the state’s area).

The Parks are managed by Parks Victoria, a state government organisation. There are also many smaller state areas which are subject to commercial activity such as logging.

Table of contents 1 Protected areas of Victoria 1.1 Indigenous Protected Areas 1.2 National Parks 1.3 Other Parks 1.4 Reference Areas 1.5 Reference Areas 1.6 State Parks 1.7 Wilderness Parks 1.8 Wilderness Zones 1 External Links

Protected areas of Victoria

Indigenous Protected Areas

• Deen Maar[?]

National Parks

• Alfred
• Alpine
• Baw Baw
• Brisbane Ranges
• Burrowa-Pine Mountain
• Chiltern Box-Ironbark
• Churchill
• Coopracambra
• Croajingolong
• Dandenong Ranges
• Errinundra
• French Island
• Grampians
• Hattah-Kulkyne
• Kinglake
• Lake Eildon
• Lind
• Little Desert
• Lower Glenelg
• Mitchell River
• Mornington Peninsula
• Morwell
• Mount Buffalo
• Mount Eccles
• Mount Richmond
• Murray-Sunset
• Organ Pipes
• Otway
• Port Campbell
• Snowy River
• Tarra-Bulga
• Terrick Terrick
• The Lakes
• Wilsons Promontory
• Wyperfeld
• Yarra Ranges

Other Parks

• Bay of Islands[?]
• Cape Conran[?]
• Cape Liptrap[?]
• Discovery Bay[?]
• Gippsland Lakes[?]
• Langwarrin[?]
• Murray-Kulkyne[?]
• Reef Hills[?]
• Tyers[?]

Reference Areas

(within other Protected areas)

• Ah Kows Gully[?]
• Anser Island[?]
• Baawang[?]
• Barga[?]
• Baw Baw[?]
• Beehive Creek[?]
• Benedore River[?]
• Berrook[?]
• Big River[?]
• Blue Rag[?]
• Blue Range[?]
• Boiler Plain[?]
• Broombush[?]
• Buangor[?]
• Buenba[?]
• Bungil[?]
• Burnside[?]
• Calder River[?]
• Carpendeit[?]
• Chalka Creek[?]
• Chiltern Box-Ironbark[?]
• Cobboboonee[?]
• Cooriemungle[?]
• Crinoline Creek[?]
• Danyo[?]
• Dattuck[?]
• Deep Creek[?]
• Diamond Creek[?]
• Disappointment[?]
• East Caledonia[?]
• Enfield[?]
• Entrance Point[?]
• Forest Hill[?]
• French Island (East)[?]
• French Island (North)[?]
• Gelantipy Plateau[?]
• Grasstree Creek[?]
• Hollands Knob[?]
• Jemba[?]
• Jilpanger[?]
• Joey Creek[?]
• Jones Creek[?]
• Kamarooka[?]
• Keegans Bend[?]
• Kentbruck Heath[?]
• Kia[?]
• Kooyoora[?]
• Korong Vale[?]
• Lagoon Plateau[?]
• Lake Jerriwirrup[?]
• Lake Walla Walla[?]
• Little Desert (East)[?]
• Little Desert (West)[?]
• Macks Creek[?]
• Merragunegin[?]
• Millewa[?]
• Millewa South[?]
• Moora Valley[?]
• Morkalla[?]
• Mount Buffalo[?]
• Mount Crozier[?]
• Mount Gregory[?]
• Mount Mcadam[?]
• Mount Pleasant[?]
• Mountain Creek[?]
• Mullungdung[?]
• Musket Creek[?]
• Olangolah Creek[?]
• O'Sullivans Lookout[?]
• Parker River[?]
• Pine Mountain[?]
• Porphyry Hill[?]
• Pretty Creek[?]
• Purnya[?]
• Raak Plain[?]
• Rocket Lake[?]
• Rudds Rocks[?]
• Ruths Gully[?]
• Seal Creek[?]
• Settlement Road[?]
• Shepherds Creek[?]
• Stony Creek (Otways)[?]
• Stony Creek (Kinglake)[?]
• Sunset[?]
• Terrick Terrick[?]
• The Sisters[?]
• The Stones[?]
• Tom Groggin[?]
• Tomahawk Creek[?]
• Tooan[?]
• Top End[?]
• Top Island[?]
• Toupnein Creek[?]
• Vereker Creek[?]
• Walsh Creek[?]
• Warby Range[?]
• Watts Creek[?]
• White Box Ridge[?]
• Whiterock Creek[?]
• Winnot Creek[?]
• Wombat Creek[?]
• Wonnangatta River[?]
• Yambulla[?]
• Zig Zag Creek[?]

Reference Areas

(outside other Protected areas)

• Beear[?]
• Bennie Creek[?]
• Burbibyong Creek[?]
• Cambatong[?]
• Concordia Gully[?]
• Cudgewa Creek[?]
• Drum Top[?]
• Dry Forest Creek[?]
• Durdidwarrah[?]
• Eaglehawk Creek[?]
• Glen Creek[?]
• Hawthorn Creek[?]
• Killawarra[?]
• King[?]
• Lightwood[?]
• Lucyvale Creek[?]
• Mitta Mitta[?]
• Mount Separation[?]
• Musk Creek[?]
• Pilot Range[?]
• Pyrete Range[?]
• Roseneath[?]
• Rushworth Forest[?]
• Ryans Creek[?]
• Sandhurst[?]
• Spring Creek[?]
• Stringybark Creek[?]
• Stony Creek (Durdiwarrah)[?]
• Tambo River[?]
• Tarpaulin Bend[?]
• Telopea Downs[?]
• Thirteen Mile Spur[?]
• Toorour[?]
• Twenty Acre Creek[?]
• Yan Yean North[?]
• Yan Yean South[?]

State Parks

• Angahook-Lorne[?]
• Arthurs Seat[?]
• Barmah[?]
• Black Range[?]
• Bunyip[?]
• Cape Nelson[?]
• Carlisle[?]
• Cathedral Ranges[?]
• Dergholm[?]
• Enfield[?]
• Holey Plains[?]
• Kamarooka[?]
• Kara Kara[?]
• Kooyoora[?]
• Langi Ghiran[?]
• Leaghur[?]
• Lerderderg[?]
• Melba Gully
• Moondarra[?]
• Mount Arapiles-Tooan[?]
• Mount Buangor[?]
• Mount Granya[?]
• Mount Lawson[?]
• Mount Napier[?]
• Mount Samaria[?]
• Mount Worth[?]
• Paddys Ranges[?]
• Warby Range[?]
• Warrandyte[?]
• Werribee Gorge
• Whipstick[?]

Wilderness Parks

• Avon[?]
• Big Desert[?]
• Wabba[?]

Wilderness Zones

(within other Protected areas)

• Bowen[?]
• Buchan Headwaters[?]
• Cape Howe[?]
• Chinaman Flat[?]
• Cobberas[?]
• Galpunga[?]
• Genoa[?]
• Indi[?]
• Minook[?]
• Mount Cowra[?]
• Mount Darling - Snowy Bluff[?]
• North Wyperfeld[?]
• Razor-Viking[?]
• Sandpatch[?]
• Snowy River[?]
• South Wyperfeld[?]
• Sunset[?]
• Tingaringy[?]
• Wilsons Promontory[?]

Victoria also has:

• 1522 Natural Feature Reserves
• 328 Nature Conservation Reserves

See also:

• Protected areas of Australia

External Links

• Parks Victoria (http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/)
• Victoria National Parks (http://www.atn.com.au/parks/vicparks)