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Protected areas of Queensland
Overview of protected areas in Queensland, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Queensland is the second-largest state in Australia. As at 2020, it contained more than 1,000 protected areas.[1] In August 2023, it was estimated a total of 14.5 million hectares or 8.38% of Queensland's landmass was protected.[2]
List of terrestrial protected areas
Conservation Parks
- Anderson Street
- Archer Point
- Baddow Island
- Baffle Creek
- Bakers Creek
- Baldwin Swamp
- Bare Hill
- Barubbra Island
- Baywulla Creek
- Beachmere
- Beelbi Creek
- Bell Creek
- Bingera 1
- Bingera 2
- 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
- Bunyaville
- Burleigh Knoll
- Byron Creek
- Cabbage Tree Point
- Calliope
- 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
- Daisy Hill[3]
- 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
- Herberton Range
- 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
- Moggill
- 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 (27.9000°S 153.3928°E)[4]
- Plunkett
- Police Paddock
- Princhester
- Reinke Scrub
- Rosins Lookout
- Round Island
- Roundstone
- Samford Ferny Hills
- Serpentine Creek
- Sheep Island
- Sheep Station Creek
- Shoalwater Bay
- Six Mile Creek
- Skull Knob
- South Stradbroke Island 1
- South Stradbroke Island 2
- Speewah
- Spicers Gap Road
- Springwood
- St Helens Gap
- Tallebudgera Creek
- Tinana Creek
- Tinana Island
- Tingalpa Creek[5]
- Tolderodden
- Tomewin
- Toohey Forest
- Tooloombah Creek
- Toorbul
- Townsville Town Common
- Vandyke Creek
- Vernon
- Wararba Creek
- Warrina
- Weyba Creek
- White Blow
- White Rock
- White Rock (Limited Depth)
- Wilandspey
- Woongoolba
- Zamia Creek
Conservation Reserves
Feature Protection Areas
- Big Ironbark
- Booroobin
- Goggrell's Tree
- Jowarra
- Rosehall
- Unnamed (20 different areas)
- Western Creek
National Parks
* National park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) jointly managed park
Resources Reserves
- Abbott Bay
- Amamoor Forest
- Bouldercombe Gorge
- Cooloola (Noosa River)
- Flat Top Range
- Heathlands
- Iron Range (Lockhart River)
- Jardine 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)
- Littleton
- Moonstone Hill
- Morgan Park
- Mount Rosey
- Munburra
- Palmer Goldfield
- Stones Country
- Wrattens
Scientific Areas
- Bald Mountain
- Helidon Hills
- Melaleuca
- Mynea Creek
- Nerang
- Northbrook
- Palgrave
- Saltwater Creek
- Stoney Range
- The Lagoons
- Unnamed (29 different areas)
- Wordoon
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List of marine protected areas
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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.[110][111][112]
Fish habitat areas
Fish habitat areas are listed in two lists - 'A' and 'B'.[110]
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.[110]
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