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 , establishe ...

is the second largest state in Australia. 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 * 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 * 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 *

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* Buckleys Hole * Bullock Creek * Bullyard *

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 * 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 * Cressbrook * Currimundi Lake * Currumbin Hill * Daisy Hill * Dawson River * Delicia Road * Denmark Hill * Djilgarin * Duggan * Dwyers Scrub * Etty Bay Road * Eudlo Creek *

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 Fras ...

* 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 * 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 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 * Long Island Bend * Malanda Falls *

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 ...

* 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 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 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 * 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 * Springwood * St Helens Gap * Tallebudgera Creek * 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 * 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

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* Alwal * Annan River * Apudthama * Astrebla Downs * Auburn River * Baga * Barnard Island Group * Barron Gorge * Basilisk Range * Batavia * Beeron * Bendidee * Binirr * Bingera * Binya * Blackbraes * Blackdown Tableland * Blackwood * Bladensburg * Blue Lake * Boodjamulla * Bowling Green Bay * Brampton Islands * Bribie Island * Broad Sound Islands * Brook Islands * Bromley (Ampulin) * Bromley (Kungkaychi) * Bulleringa *

* Burleigh Head * 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 * 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 *

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 * Eudlo Creek * Eungella * Eurimbula * Expedition * Fairlies Knob * Family Islands * Ferntree Creek * Fitzroy Island * Flinders Group * Forest Den * Fort Lytton * Forty Mile Scrub * Frankland Group * Freshwater * Gadgarra * Girraween * Girramay * Girringun * Glass House Mountains * 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 H ...

* 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 * Kurrimine Beach * Kutini-Payamu * Lake Bindegolly * Lama Lama * Lamington * Lindeman Islands * Littabella * Little Mulgrave * Littleton * Lizard Island * 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 islan ...

* 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 * Mazeppa * Michaelmas and Upolu Cays * Millstream Falls * 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 * Mount Aberdeen * Mount Archer * Mount Barney * Mount Bauple (Scientific) * Mount Binga * Mount Chinghee * Mount Colosseum * Mount Cook * Mount Coolum * 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 wa ...

* North East Island * Northumberland Islands * Nuga Nuga * Nymph Island * Orpheus Island * Oyala Thumotang * Palmerston Rocks * Palmgrove (Scientific) * Paluma Range * Peak Range * Pinnacles * Pioneer Peaks * Pipeclay * Piper Islands * Poona * Porcupine Gorge * Possession Island *

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* Ravensbourne * Reliance Creek * Repulse Island * Restoration Island * Rinyirru * Rocky Islets * Round Top Island * 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 * Snake Range * South Cumberland Islands * South Island * Southern Moreton Bay Islands * Southwood * 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 *

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(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 * 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 * 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 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 *

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 ...

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 ...