Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

is the second largest state in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. It contains around 500 separate

protected areas Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...

. In 2020, it was estimated a total of 14.2 million hectares or 8.25% of Queensland's landmass was protected.

List of terrestrial protected areas

Conservation Parks

* Anderson Street * Archer Point * Baddow Island *

Baffle Creek The Baffle Creek is a creek in Central Queensland, Australia. Course and features The Baffle Creek rises near Arthurs Seat in the Eurimbula State Forest and just south of the Eurimbula National Park in the Great Dividing Range. The creek fl ...

* Bakers Creek * Baldwin Swamp * Bare Hill * Barubbra Island * Baywulla Creek * Beachmere * Beelbi Creek * Bell Creek * Bingera 1 * Bingera 2 * Bird Island * Blackwater *

Bloomfield River The Bloomfield River is a river located in the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia, noted for its Bloomfield River cod fish species, found only in the river. Course and features The river rises in the Great Dividing Range below Zi ...

Bloomsbury Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions. Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...

* Boat Mountain 1 * Boat Mountain 2 * Bottle Creek *

Boyne Island Boyne Island is a coastal town and locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Boyne Island had a population of 4,760 people. Boyne Island is south of Gladstone. Geography It is located on the west bank o ...

* Broadwater *

Buccan Buccan or Boucan is the native South American and Caribbean nameDiccionario de Etimología/ref> for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or Smoking (cooking), smoked over a fire. Spaniards called the same process "barbacoa" ...

* Buckleys Hole * Bullock Creek *

Bullyard Bullyard is a small rural town and locality in Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In , Bullyard had a population of 189 people. Geography Bullyard is located off the Bruce Highway in Central Queensland, approximately west of Bundaberg ...

Bunya Mountains The Bunya Mountains are a distinctive set of peaks forming an isolated section of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland. The mountain range forms the northern edge of the Darling Downs in the locality also called Bunya Mountains ne ...

* Bunyaville * Burleigh Knoll *

Byron Creek George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...

* Cabbage Tree Point *

Caloundra Caloundra ( ) is a coastal town and the southernmost town in the Sunshine Coast Region in South East Queensland, Australia. Geography Caloundra is north of the Brisbane central business district. Caloundra is accessible from Landsborough ...

* Cape Pallarenda * Carbrook Wetlands * Carello Palm Swamp * Carraba * Causeway Lake * Charon Point * Combo 1 * Combo 2 * Coolmunda * Cooloothin *

Coombabah Lake The Coombabah Lake Conservation Park is a conservation park that is an Important Wetland in Australia, located in the Gold Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia. Part of the Coomera River catchment, Lake Coombabah is a tidal lake at ...

Cressbrook Cressbrook is a village in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire. It lies in Water-cum-Jolly Dale at the foot of Cressbrook Dale. Population details at the 2011 Census are included in the civil parish of Litton. Before its Enclosure Act ...

* Currimundi Lake * Currumbin Hill * Daisy Hill * Dawson River * Delicia Road *

Denmark Hill Denmark Hill is an area and road in Camberwell, in the London Borough of Southwark. It is a sub-section of the western flank of the Norwood Ridge, centred on the long, curved Ruskin Park slope of the ridge. The road is part of the A215 road, A21 ...

* Djilgarin * Duggan * Dwyers Scrub * Etty Bay Road *

Eudlo Creek Eudlo is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Eudlo had a population of 1,117 people. Geography Eudlo Creek rises in the south west of Eudlo. Also in the areas is Mossy Bank M ...

Fraser Island Fraser Island (Butchulla: ) is a World Heritage-listed island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett region, Queensland, Australia. The island is approximately north of the state capital, Brisbane, and is within the Fraser ...

* Five Rocks *

Flagstone Creek Flagstone Creek is a rural locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Flagstone Creek had a population of 220 people. Geography ''Flagstone Creek'' (the watercourse) flows through from west to north-east. Histor ...

* Fleays * Fleays Wildlife Park *

Flinders Peak Flinders Peak () is a conspicuous triangular peak, high, on the west end of the Bristly Peaks. The peak overlooks Forster Ice Piedmont near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was photographed from the air by the British Graham Land E ...

* 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 Keppel Sands is a coastal rural town and locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Keppel Sands had a population of 360 people. Geography Keppel Sands is the southernmost town on the Capricorn Coast. ...

* Keyser Island * King Island * Kirrama * Knapp Creek *

Kurrimine Beach Kurrimine Beach is a coastal town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kurrimine Beach had a population of 729 people. Geography The '' Coral Sea'' forms the eastern boundary. The Kurrimine ...

Lake Broadwater A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larg ...

* Lake Murphy * Lark Quarry *

Limestone Creek Limestone Creek is long with a Drainage basin, drainage area of , and is a tributary to the Tennessee River. The river rises in Lincoln County, Tennessee, Lincoln County, Tennessee, and flows south into Madison County, Alabama, Madison County, A ...

* Long Island Bend *

Malanda Falls The Malanda Falls is a cascade waterfall on the North Johnstone River, located in the Tablelands Region in the Far North of Queensland, Australia. Location and features The falls are situated on the Atherton Tableland, near the town of Mala ...

Maroochy River The Maroochy River is a river in South East Queensland, Australia. The river rises from the eastern slopes of the Blackall Range and flows east through Eumundi, before entering the sea at Cotton Tree, Maroochydore. Other populated centres in t ...

* Meingan Creek *

Millstream Millstream may refer to: Places * Millstream, Queensland, a locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia *Millstream, a headstream of the Herbert River The Herbert River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia. T ...

Moggill Moggill is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Moggill had a population of 4,641 people. Geography Moggill is about by from the Brisbane GPO. The Brisbane River bounds the suburb to the east, south and west w ...

* Mon Repos * Mooloolah (Marie Higgs) * Morven * Mount Beau Brummell * Mount Blarney * Mount Cooroy * Mount Dumaresq *

Mount Eerwah Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...

* Mount Hector *

Mount Hopeful Mount Hopeful is a peak standing north of the head of King George Bay and 1.5 nautical miles southeast of Rea Peak on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Plac ...

* Mount Kinchant *

Mount Leura Mount Leura is a 313-metre scoria cone surrounding a dry crater 100 m deep and is the central and most obvious component of a larger volcanic complex southeast of the town of Camperdown located in western Victoria, Australia, south west of the ...

* 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 Plunkett is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó ''Pluingceid''. It is associated with Ireland, and possibly of Norse or Norman origin; it may be spelled O'Plunket, Plunket, Plunkit, Plunkitt, Plonkit, Plonkitt, Plonket, Plonkett, or Ó P ...

* Police Paddock * Princhester * Reinke Scrub * Rosins Lookout * Round Island * Roundstone * Samford Ferny Hills * Serpentine Creek * Sheep Island * Sheep Station Creek *

Shoalwater Bay Shoalwater Bay is a large bay on the Capricorn Coast of Central Queensland, Australia 100 km north of the coastal town of Yeppoon and 628 km north-north-west of the state capital, Brisbane. Since 1966, the land surrounding Shoalwater Ba ...

* Six Mile Creek * Skull Knob * South Stradbroke Island 1 * South Stradbroke Island 2 * Speewah *

Spicers Gap Road Spicers Gap Road is a heritage-listed road at Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park (in the Main Range National Park), Tregony, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1859 to 1865. It is also known as Spicers Gap Road C ...

* Springwood * St Helens Gap *

Tallebudgera Creek The Tallebudgera Creek is a creek located in South East Queensland, Australia. Its catchment lies within the Gold Coast local government area and covers an area of . The river is approximately in length and is known for good fishing. Course ...

* Tinana Creek * Tinana Island *

Tingalpa Creek Tingalpa Creek is a creek in South East Queensland. It flows along Brisbane's south east boundary with Redland City Council. On early maps the creek was called both Tunim Creek and Tangulba Creek. The waterway serves as important wildlife cor ...

* Tolderodden * Tomewin * Toohey Forest * Tooloombah Creek *

Toorbul Toorbul is a coastal town and a locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toorbul had a population of 930 people. Geography Toorbul is north of Brisbane. Toorbul is bounded on the east by Pumicestone Channel which s ...

* 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

Mount Glorious Mount Glorious is a rural locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Glorious had a population of 296 people. Geography Mount Glorious is a mountain which is part of the D'Aguilar Range and is a suburb in Moreton ...

Feature Protection Areas

* Big Ironbark * Booroobin * Goggrell's Tree * Jowarra * Rosehall * Unnamed (20 different areas) * Western Creek

National Parks

Albinia Albinia is a town in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Orbetello, province of Grosseto, in the Tuscan Maremma. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to Alton Alton may refer to: People *Alton (given name) *Alton (surname) Places Australia *Alton National Park, Queensland * Alton, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Balonne Canada * Alton, Ontario *Alton, Nova Scotia New Zealand * Alton, New Zealand, ...

Alwal Alwal is a major locality in Secunderabad city, and a suburb of Hyderabad. Earlier, Alwal was a part of Malkajgiri Mandal but in 2006, Alwal Municipality was merged into Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. After the district bifurcation Al ...

Annan River The Annan River ( Kuku Nyungkal: ''Yuku Baja'') is a river located in the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia. Course and features The river rises in the Yorkey Range below Mount Romeo near , north-northwest of . The river flows g ...

* Apudthama * Astrebla Downs *

Auburn River Auburn may refer to: Places Australia * Auburn, New South Wales * City of Auburn, the local government area *Electoral district of Auburn *Auburn, Queensland, a locality in the Western Downs Region *Auburn, South Australia * Auburn, Tasmania *A ...

* Baga * Barnard Island Group * Barron Gorge * Basilisk Range *

Batavia Batavia may refer to: Historical places * Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands * Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...

* Beeron * Bendidee * Binirr * Bingera * Binya * Blackbraes * Blackdown Tableland * Blackwood * Bladensburg * Blue Lake * Boodjamulla * Bowling Green Bay * Brampton Islands * Bribie Island *

Broad Sound Islands The Northumberland Islands are a scattered island chain off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. Geography and history The Northumberland Islands are to the south-east of the city of Mackay roughly between the latitudes 21°S and 22� ...

* Brook Islands * Bromley (Ampulin) * Bromley (Kungkaychi) * Bulleringa *

Burleigh Head Burleigh Heads is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Burleigh Heads had a population of 10,077 people. Geography Burleigh Head is a cape () jutting into the Coral Sea at the northern mouth of Tallebudgera C ...

* Burrum Coast * Byfield * Camooweal Caves * Cania Gorge * Cape Hillsborough *

Cape Melville Cape Melville is a headland on the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. To its west lies Princess Charlotte Bay. It is part of the Cape Melville National Park. Cape Melville was named Stoney Cape in 1815 by Lieutenant Charles ...

Cape Palmerston Cape Palmerston is a national park in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. Geography The park is 748 km northwest of Brisbane. It is located within the boundaries of Koumala, part of the Mackay Region local government area. It l ...

* Cape Upstart *

Capricorn Coast The Capricorn Coast is a stretch of coastline in Central Queensland, Australia and is part of the Shire of Livingstone (formerly part of Rockhampton Region). Geography The Capricorn Coasts takes its name from Cape Capricorn () on Curtis Is ...

* Capricornia Cays * Capricornia Cays (scientific) * Carnarvon * Castle Tower *

Cherbourg Cherbourg (; , , ), nrf, Chèrbourg, ) is a former commune and subprefecture located at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche. It was merged into the commune of Cherbourg-Octeville on 28 Feb ...

* Chesterton Range * Chillagoe-Mungana Caves * Claremont Isles * Clump Mountain * Coalstoun Lakes *

Conondale Conondale is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Conondale had a population of 858 people. Geography The town is in the Sunshine Coast hinterland area. The town is located on the banks of the u ...

* Conway * Crater Lakes * Crows Nest * Cudmore * Culgoa Floodplain * Currawinya * Curtis Island * D'Aguilar * Daintree * Dalrymple * Daarrba * Davies Creek * Deepwater * Deer Reserve *

Diamantina Diamantina may refer to: Geography Australia * Diamantina Bowen (1833-1893), ''grande dame'' of Queensland and the wife of Sir George Bowen, the first Governor of Queensland. * ''Diamantina Cocktail'', 1976 album by Little River Band * Diam ...

* Dinden * Dipperu (Scientific) * Djiru * Dryander * Dularcha *

Ella Bay Ella Bay is a bay located in the Cassowary Coast Region in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is in close proximity to the town of Innisfail. Innisfail is situated south of Cairns and north of Townsville. The bay is bounded by Cooper's point ...

Endeavour River The Endeavour River ( Guugu Yimithirr: ''Wabalumbaal''), inclusive of the Endeavour River Right Branch, the Endeavour River South Branch, and the Endeavour River North Branch, is a river system located on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queens ...

Epping Forest Epping Forest is a area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which straddles the border between Greater London and Essex. The main body of the forest stretches from Epping in the north, to Chingford on the edge of the London ...

(Scientific) * Erringibba * Esk * Eubenangee Swamp *

* Eungella * Eurimbula * Expedition * Fairlies Knob *

Family Islands Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideall ...

* Ferntree Creek * Fitzroy Island * Flinders Group * Forest Den *

Fort Lytton Fort Lytton is a heritage-listed 19th century coastal fort in the suburb of Lytton in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The name “Fort Lytton” is also used to describe the military base that surrounded the fort. Fort Lytton was built in ...

* Forty Mile Scrub * Frankland Group *

Freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...

Gadgarra Gadgarra is a rural locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_nam ...

* Girraween *

Girramay The Girramay are an Australian Aboriginal tribe of northern Queensland. Name The Girramay ethnonym is formed from ''jir:a'', meaning "man". Language The Girramay spoke the most southerly dialect of Dyirbal. Country The Girramay people's trad ...

* Girringun *

Glass House Mountains The Glass House Mountains are a cluster of thirteen hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The highest hill is Mount Beerwah at 556 metres above sea level, but the most identifiable of a ...

* Gloucester Island * Goneaway * Goodedulla * Goodnight Scrub * Goold Island * Great Basalt Wall * Great Sandy * Green Island * Grey Peaks * Grongah * Gulngay * Halifax Bay Wetlands * Hann Tableland * Hasties Swamp * Hell Hole Gorge * Herberton Range *

Hinchinbrook Island Hinchinbrook Island (or Pouandai to the Biyaygiri people) is an island in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It lies east of Cardwell and north of Lucinda, separated from the north-eastern coast of Queensland by the narrow Hi ...

* Holbourne Island * Homevale * Hope Islands *

Howick Group Howick may refer to: Places *Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa **Howick Falls * Howick, Lancashire, a small hamlet (Howick Cross) and former civil parish in England *Howick, New Zealand **Howick Historical Village ** Howick (New Zealand elect ...

* Hull River * Humboldt * Idalia * Isla Gorge * Japoon *

Junee Junee () is a medium-sized town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The town's prosperity and mixed services economy is based on a combination of agriculture, rail transport, light industry and government services, and in par ...

* Juunju Daarrba Nhirrpan * Kalkajaka * Keppel Bay Islands * Keppel Bay Islands (scientific) * Kirrama * Kondalilla * Koombooloomba * Kroombit Tops * Kuranda *

* Kutini-Payamu * Lake Bindegolly * Lama Lama *

Lamington A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, gi ...

* Lindeman Islands * Littabella * Little Mulgrave * Littleton *

Lizard Island Lizard Island is an island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland (Australia), northwest of Brisbane and part of the Lizard Island Group that also includes Palfrey Island. It is part of the Lizard Island National Park. Lizard Island is within ...

* Lochern * Lockyer * Macalister Range *

Magnetic Island Magnetic Island ( Wulguru: Yunbenun) is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville, with 2,335 permanent residents. The island ...

* Main Range * Malaan *

Mapleton Mapleton may refer to: Places Australia * Mapleton, Queensland, a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region Canada * Mapleton, New Brunswick, a rural community in Kings County * Mapleton, Moncton, New Brunswick, a neighborhood * Maple ...

* Mapleton Falls * Maria Creek * Mariala *

Marpa The Modification and Replacement Parts Association is the Washington, D.C.-based trade association that represents manufacturers of government-approved after market aircraft parts. These aircraft parts are often known as PMA parts, from the acron ...

* Mazeppa * Michaelmas and Upolu Cays *

Millstream Falls The Millstream Falls ( Aboriginal: ''Yindinji''), a tiered plunge waterfall on The Millstream, is located in the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Wet Tropics in the Far North region of Queensland, Australia. Location and features The Millstream ...

* Minerva Hills * Mitchell-Alice Rivers * Mitirinchi Island *

Molle Islands The Whitsunday Islands are 74 continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Brisbane. The northernmost of the islands are off the coast by the town of Bowen, while the southernmost islands are o ...

* Moogerah Peaks *

Mooloolah River The Mooloolah River is a river in South East Queensland, Australia. The river rises from the eastern slopes of the Blackall Range and flows east-northeast, similar to the Maroochy River to the north. The mouth of the river is at southern Moolool ...

* Moorrinya * Moresby Range *

Moreton Island Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia. The Coral Sea lies on the east coast of the island. Moreton Island lies northeast of the Queensland capital, Brisbane. ...

* Mount Aberdeen * Mount Archer *

Mount Barney Mount Barney is a mountain within the Scenic Rim Region in south-east Queensland, Australia. It lies approximately south-west of Brisbane, not far from the Queensland - New South Wales border, and forms part of the McPherson Range. It is a p ...

* Mount Bauple (Scientific) * Mount Binga * Mount Chinghee * Mount Colosseum * Mount Cook *

Mount Coolum Mount Coolum is a coastal suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mount Coolum had a population of 4,265 people. Geography The Sunshine Motorway passes through the locality from the north-west (Coolum Beach) t ...

* Mount Etna Caves * Mount Hypipamee * Mount Lewis * Mount Mackay * Mount Martin * Mount O'Connell * Mount Ossa * Mount Pinbarren * Mount Spurgeon * Mount Walsh * Mount Webb * Mount Windsor * Mowbray * Mudlo * Munga-Thirri * Muundhi * Nairana * Naree Budjong Djara * Narkoola * Narrien Range * Newry Islands * Ngalba Bulal * Nicoll Scrub *

Noosa The Shire of Noosa is a local government area about north of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast district of South East Queensland, Australia. The shire covers an area of . It existed as a local government entity from 1910 until 2008, when it was ...

* North East Island *

Northumberland Islands The Northumberland Islands are a scattered island chain off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. Geography and history The Northumberland Islands are to the south-east of the city of Mackay roughly between the latitudes 21°S and 22� ...

* Nuga Nuga * Nymph Island *

Orpheus Island Orpheus Island National Park is a national park on Orpheus Island, in North Queensland, Australia. The Aboriginal (possibly Nyawaygi) name for this island is Goolboddi Island. It is one of the Palm Islands group, northwest of Brisbane, as is ...

* Oyala Thumotang * Palmerston Rocks * Palmgrove (Scientific) * Paluma Range *

Peak Range The Peak Range is a small subrange of the Swannell Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, located on the northwest side of the junction of Toodoggone River and Finlay River in northern British Columbia, Canada. There is also a Peak Range in Central Q ...

Pinnacles A pinnacle is an architectural element originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire. It was main ...

* Pioneer Peaks * Pipeclay * Piper Islands *

Poona Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...

Porcupine Gorge Porcupine Gorge is a gorge on Galah Creek in Porcupine, Shire of Flinders in North West Queensland, Australia. It is a protected area within the Porcupine Gorge National Park. Access to the gorge and national park is via the Kennedy Develo ...

* Possession Island *

Precipice In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity. Cliffs are common on coa ...

* Ravensbourne * Reliance Creek * Repulse Island * Restoration Island * Rinyirru * Rocky Islets *

Round Top Island Round Top Island is an island located close to the south-western coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is part of the Maatsuyker Islands Group, and comprises part of the Southwest National Park and the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage ...

* Rundle Range * Rungulla * Russell River *

Sandbanks Sandbanks is an affluent neighbourhood of Poole, Dorset, on the south coast of England, situated on a narrow spit of around 1 km2 or 0.39 sq mi extending into the mouth of Poole Harbour. It is known for its high property prices and for it ...

* Sarabah * Saunders Islands * Sir Charles Hardy Group *

Smith Islands The Smith Islands are two Antarctic islands lying close to Tracy Point, the western extremity of Beall Island, in the Windmill Islands. They were first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and ...

Snake Range The Snake Range is a mountain range in White Pine County, Nevada, United States. The south-central portion of the range is included within Great Basin National Park, with most of the remainder included within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Fores ...

* South Cumberland Islands *

South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...

Southern Moreton Bay Islands The Southern Moreton Bay Islands, abbreviated as the ''SMBI'', also known as the ''Bay Islands'', or the ''RKLM'', are the four inhabited southern Moreton Bay islands located in South East Queensland, Australia. The group is part of the Redland ...

* Southwood *

Springbrook Springbrook may refer to: Places Australia * Springbrook, Queensland ** Springbrook National Park, Queensland ** Springbrook State School, a heritage-listed building in the park ** Springbrook Road, a heritage-listed road Canada * Springbrook, ...

* St Helena Island *

Staaten River The Staaten River is a river in northern Queensland, Australia, rising in the Great Dividing Range and flowing northwest into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Location and features The river rises of the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range appr ...

* Starcke * Sundown * Swain Reefs * Tamborine * Tarong *

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...

(Scientific) * The Palms * Three Islands * Thrushton * Topaz Road * Tregole *

Triunia ''Triunia'' is a genus of medium to tall shrubs or small trees found as understorey plants in rainforests of eastern Australia. Members of the plant family Proteaceae, they are notable for their poisonous fleshy fruits or drupes. Only one species ...

* Tuchekoi *

Tully Falls The Tully Falls, a horsetail chute waterfall on the Tully River, is located in the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Wet Tropics in the Far North region of Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , ...

* Tully Gorge * Turtle Group * Two Islands * Undara Volcanic * Venman Bushland * Welford * West Hill * White Mountains *

Whitsunday Islands The Whitsunday Islands are 74 continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Brisbane. The northernmost of the islands are off the coast by the town of Bowen, while the southernmost islands are ...

* Wild Cattle Island * Wondul Range * Woocoo * Woondum *

Wooroonooran Wooroonooran is a locality split among the Cairns Region, the Cassowary Coast Region and the Tablelands Region in Queensland, Australia. In the , Wooroonooran had no population. Geography The locality is entirely within the Wooroonooran Nati ...

* Wrattens * Wuthara Island *

Wuthathi The Wuthathi, also known as the Mutjati, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland. Anthropologist Norman Tindale distinguished the Mutjati from the Otati, whereas AIATSIS treats the two ethnonyms as variants related to th ...

* Yamarrinh Wachangan Islands *

Yungaburra Yungaburra is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Yungaburra had a population of 1,239 people. Geography Yungaburra is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. The lan ...

Resources Reserves

* Abbott Bay * Amamoor Forest * Bouldercombe Gorge * Cooloola (Noosa River) * Flat Top Range *

Heathlands A heath () is a shrubland habitat (ecology), habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great B ...

* Iron Range (Lockhart River) *

Jardine River The Jardine River is the largest river of the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. Course The headwaters of the river rise southwest of Helby Hill in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a north westerly direction parallel ...

* 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 The Palmer River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia. The area surrounding the river was the site of a gold rush in the late 19th century which started in 1873. Course and features The headwaters of the Palmer River rise in ...

* Stones Country * Wrattens

Scientific Areas

Bald Mountain Bald Mountain may refer to: Geographic locations in the United States * Bald Mountain (Heceta Island), Alaska * Bald Mountain (California), a name given to over fifty summits in California ** Bald Mountain (Humboldt County) * , a peak near Littl ...

* Helidon Hills *

Melaleuca ''Melaleuca'' () is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of '' Leptospermum''). They range in size ...

* Mynea Creek *

Nerang Nerang is a town and suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Nerang had a population of 16,864 people. Geography The Nerang River flows through the locality from south to east, passing through the town. The river u ...

* Northbrook * Palgrave * Saltwater Creek * Stoney Range * The Lagoons * Unnamed (29 different areas) * Wordoon

List of marine protected areas

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''.

Fish habitat areas

Fish habitat areas are listed in two lists - 'A' and 'B'.

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 The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities. It is a vast multiple-use Marine Park which supports a wide range of uses, including commercial marine tourism, fishing, ports an ...

is located within the Australian government's jurisdiction. *

Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities. It is a vast multiple-use Marine Park which supports a wide range of uses, including commercial marine tourism, fishing, ports an ...

Great Sandy Marine Park The Great Sandy Strait is a strait in the Australian state of Queensland of length which separates mainland Queensland from Fraser Island. It is also a locality in the Fraser Coast Region local government area. In the , Great Sandy Strait ha ...

Moreton Bay Marine Park The Moreton Bay Marine Park was established in 1992 to protect ecologically significant habitats in Moreton Bay. The marine park extends from Caloundra south to the southern tip of South Stradbroke Island. The marine park's border extends up to t ...

References

External links

Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and RacingQueensland Prison & Penal Historical Association
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Protected areas Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...