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As of 2023, there are eleven National Natural Landmarks in the U.S. state of Georgia.


Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description
1 Big Hammock Natural Area 1976 31°51′55″N 82°05′11″W / 31.86522°N 82.0864°W / 31.86522; -82.0864 (Big Hammock Natural Area) Tattnall state (Dept. of Natural Resources) Relatively undisturbed broadleaf evergreen hammock forest.
2 Camp E.F. Boyd Natural Area 1974 Emanuel private One of the best representatives of the upland sand ridge ecosystem of the Coastal Plain
3 Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest 1972 32°44′59″N 84°56′05″W / 32.7498°N 84.9346°W / 32.7498; -84.9346 (Cason J. Calloway Memorial Forest) Harris private An outstanding example of transitional conditions between eastern deciduous and southern coniferous forest types.
4 Ebenezer Creek Swamp 1976 32°21′50″N 81°13′53″W / 32.3640°N 81.2313°W / 32.3640; -81.2313 (Ebenezer Creek Swamp) Effingham private The best remaining cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin.
5 Heggie's Rock Heggies Rock in the Rain small.jpg 1980 33°32′29.8″N 82°15′13.1″W / 33.541611°N 82.253639°W / 33.541611; -82.253639 (Heggie's Rock) Columbia county, private (The Nature Conservancy) The best example in eastern North America of the remarkable endemic flora restricted to granite outcrops.
6 Lewis Island Tract 1974 31°24′N 81°30′W / 31.4°N 81.5°W / 31.4; -81.5 (Lewis Island Tract) McIntosh state (Department of Natural Resources) One of the most extensive bottomland hardwood swamps in Georgia. website
7 Marshall Forest Marshall forest1.jpg 1966 34°15′03″N 85°11′43″W / 34.250898°N 85.195375°W / 34.250898; -85.195375 (Marshall Forest) Floyd private A loblolly pine-shortleaf pine forest believed to have originated following an intense fire at about the time the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma.
8 Okefenokee Swamp OkefenokeeCanalDiggersTrail.wmg.jpg 1974 30°37′00″N 82°19′00″W / 30.616667°N 82.316667°W / 30.616667; -82.316667 (Okefenokee Swamp) Charlton, Clinch, Ware federal (Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge) One of the largest and most primitive swamps in the country.
9 Panola Mountain Panola.JPG 1980 33°38′07″N 84°10′13″W / 33.635278°N 84.170278°W / 33.635278; -84.170278 (Panola Mountain) Rockdale state (Department of Natural Resources) The most natural and undisturbed monadnock of exposed granitic rock in the Piedmont biophysiographic province.
10 Wassaw Island DSC 9425 (8091112286).jpg 1967 31°54′01″N 80°58′56″W / 31.9003°N 80.9822°W / 31.9003; -80.9822 (Wassaw Island) Chatham federal (Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge) Only barrier island in Georgia with an undisturbed forest cover.
11 Wade Tract Preserve 2014 30°45′N 84°00′W / 30.75°N 84°W / 30.75; -84 (Wade Tract Preserve) Thomas private Old growth longleaf pine savanna.
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