Protected areas of Queensland

Queensland is the second largest 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). 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).

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
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• Kondalilla
• Kroombit Tops
• Kurrimine Beach
• Lake Bindegolly
• Lakefield
• Lamington
• Lawn Hill
• Lindeman Islands
• Littabella
• Lizard Island
• Lochern
• 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
• 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:

• Protected areas of Australia

External links

• Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
• Queensland Prison & Penal Historical Association