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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 69,388 km² (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 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).

Contents

1 Protected areas of Queensland 1.1 Conservation Parks 1.2 Feature Protection Areas 1.3 National Parks 1.4 Resources Reserves 1.5 Scientific Areas 1 External Links

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:

• Protected areas of Australia

External Links

• Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/)

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