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 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).

Table of 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.env.qld.gov.au/environment/park/)