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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Keppel Bay Islands
- Keppel Bay Islands (scientific)
- Kirrama
- Kondalilla
- Kroombit Tops
- Kuranda
- Kurrimine Beach
- Lake Bindegolly
- Lakefield
- Lama Lama
- Lamington
- Lawn Hill
- Lindeman Islands
- Littabella
- Lizard Island
- Lochern
- Lockyer
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
External links
- Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing
- Queensland Prison & Penal Historical Association
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