Protected areas of Victoria

Protected areas of Victoria

Victoria is the smallest mainland state in Australia. It contains 1966 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 33,780 km² (14.84% of the state’s area). Of these, 36 are National parks, totalling 25,774 km² (11.32% of the state’s area).

The Parks are managed by Parks Victoria, a state government organisation. There are also many smaller state areas which are subject to commercial activity such as logging.

Contents

Coastal and marine parks


Historic and heritage areas and parks

Indigenous Protected Areas

National Parks

As of 2011 there are 45 national parks in Victoria.[1]

Victoria
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17
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36
38
42
National parks of Victoria, Australia
Name Size (hectares) Established Notes
Alfred 3050 1925
Alpine 646000 1989
Barmah 28521 2010
Baw Baw 13300 1979
Brisbane Ranges 7718 1973
Burrowa-Pine Mountain 18400 1978
Chiltern-Mount Pilot 21600 2002
Churchill 1668 1941
Cobboboonee 18510 2009
Coopracambra 35000 1991
Croajingolong 87500 1979
Dandenong Ranges 3215 1987 Includes the former Ferntree Gully NP
Errinundra 26875 1988
French Island 11100 1997
Grampians 168000 1984
Great Otway 103000 1981
Greater Bendigo 17007 2009
Gunbower 2010
Hattah-Kulkyne 49975 1960
Heathcote-Graytown 12833 2002
Kinglake 22360 1928
Lake Eildon 27750 1957
Lind 1370 1925
Little Desert 132000 1968
Lower Glenelg 27300 1969
Lower Goulburn - 1992
Mitchell River 14338 1963 Includes former Glenaladale NP; expanded 1986, and 2003.
Mornington Peninsula 2686 1988
Morwell 560 1967
Mount Buffalo 31000 1898
Mount Eccles 6120 1960
Mount Richmond 1733 1960
Murray-Sunset 633000 1991
Organ Pipes 152 1972
Point Nepean
Port Campbell 1750 1962
Snowy River 98700 1979
St Arnaud Range 13900 2002
Tarra-Bulga 2015 1986
Terrick Terrick 5882 1999
The Lakes 2390 1927
Warby-Ovens 14655 2009
Wilsons Promontory 50400 1898
Wyperfeld 356800 1921
Yarra Ranges 76000 1995

State Parks

Metropolitan parks

Reference Areas inside other Protected areas

  • Ah Kows Gully
  • Anser Island
  • Baawang
  • Barga
  • Baw Baw
  • Beehive Creek
  • Benedore River
  • Berrook
  • Big River
  • Blue Rag
  • Blue Range
  • Boiler Plain
  • Broombush
  • Buangor
  • Buenba
  • Bungil
  • Burnside
  • Calder River
  • Carpendeit
  • Chalka Creek
  • Chiltern Box-Ironbark
  • Cobboboonee
  • Cooriemungle
  • Crinoline Creek
  • Danyo
  • Dattuck
  • Deep Creek
  • Diamond Creek
  • Disappointment
  • East Caledonia
  • Enfield
  • Entrance Point
  • Forest Hill
  • French Island (East)
  • French Island (North)
  • Gelantipy Plateau
  • Grasstree Creek
  • Hollands Knob
  • Jemba
  • Jilpanger
  • Joey Creek
  • Jones Creek
  • Kamarooka
  • Keegans Bend
  • Kentbruck Heath
  • Kia
  • Kooyoora
  • Korong Vale
  • Lagoon Plateau
  • Lake Jerriwirrup
  • Lake Walla Walla
  • Little Desert (East)
  • Little Desert (West)
  • Macks Creek
  • Merragunegin
  • Millewa
  • Millewa South
  • Moora Valley
  • Morkalla
  • Mount Buffalo
  • Mount Crozier
  • Mount Gregory
  • Mount Mcadam
  • Mount Pleasant
  • Mountain Creek
  • Mullungdung
  • Musket Creek
  • Olangolah Creek
  • O'Sullivans Lookout
  • Patterson River
  • Parker River
  • Pine Mountain
  • Porphyry Hill
  • Pretty Creek
  • Purnya
  • Raak Plain
  • Rocket Lake
  • Rudds Rocks
  • Ruths Gully
  • Seal Creek
  • Settlement Road
  • Shepherds Creek
  • Stony Creek (Otways)
  • Stony Creek (Kinglake)
  • Sunset
  • Terrick Terrick
  • The Sisters
  • The Stones
  • Tom Groggin
  • Tomahawk Creek
  • Tooan
  • Top End
  • Top Island
  • Toupnein Creek
  • Vereker Creek
  • Walsh Creek
  • Warby Range
  • Watts Creek
  • White Box Ridge
  • Whiterock Creek
  • Winnot Creek
  • Wombat Creek
  • Wonnangatta River
  • Yambulla
  • Zig Zag Creek

Reference Areas outside other Protected areas

  • Beear
  • Bennie Creek
  • Burbibyong Creek
  • Cambatong
  • Concordia Gully
  • Cudgewa Creek
  • Drum Top
  • Dry Forest Creek
  • Durdidwarrah
  • Eaglehawk Creek
  • Glen Creek
  • Hawthorn Creek
  • Killawarra
  • King
  • Lightwood
  • Lucyvale Creek
  • Mitta Mitta
  • Mount Separation
  • Musk Creek
  • Pilot Range
  • Pyrete Range
  • Roseneath
  • Rushworth Forest
  • Ryans Creek
  • Sandhurst
  • Spring Creek
  • Stringybark Creek
  • Stony Creek (Durdiwarrah)
  • Tambo River
  • Tarpaulin Bend
  • Telopea Downs
  • Thirteen Mile Spur
  • Toorour
  • Twenty Acre Creek
  • Yan Yean North
  • Yan Yean South

Wilderness Parks

Wilderness Zones inside other Protected areas

  • Bowen
  • Buchan Headwaters
  • Cape Howe
  • Chinaman Flat
  • Cobberas
  • Galpunga
  • Genoa
  • Indi
  • Minook
  • Mount Cowra
  • Mount Darling - Snowy Bluff
  • North Wyperfeld
  • Razor-Viking
  • Sandpatch
  • Snowy River
  • South Wyperfeld
  • Sunset
  • Tingaringy

Also in Victoria

  • 1522 Natural Feature Reserves
  • 328 Nature Conservation Reserves

See also

References

  1. ^ Parks Victoria: About, retrieved 8 May 2011

External links


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