Protected areas of Victoria facts for kids
Victoria is the smallest mainland state in Australia. As of 2008[update] it contained 2,850 separate protected areas with a total land area of 39,273 km2 (15,163 sq mi) (17.26% of the state's area). Of these, 45 were national parks, totalling 28,023 km2 (10,820 sq mi) (11.32% of the state's area).
The parks are managed by Parks Victoria, a state government agency. There are also many smaller state areas which are subject to commercial activity such as logging.
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Coastal and marine parks
The state of Victoria has protected approximately 5.3% of coastal waters. In June 2002, legislation was passed to establish 13 marine national parks and 11 marine sanctuaries. Victoria is the first jurisdiction in the world to create an entire system of highly protected marine national parks at the same time.
Historic and heritage areas and parks
- Beechworth Historic Park
- Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park
- Nyerimilang Heritage Park
- Oriental Claims Historic Area
- Point Gellibrand Coastal Heritage Park
- Steiglitz Historic Park
- Walhalla Historic Area
- Upper Goulburn Historic Area
- Whroo Historic Reserve
- Woodlands Historic Park
Indigenous Protected Areas
Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) are "areas of land and sea managed by Indigenous groups as protected areas for biodiversity conservation through voluntary agreements with the Australian Government". The following IPAs have been declared in Victoria:
National parks
As of 2011 there are 45 national parks in Victoria.
| Order | National park name | Area | Declared as a national park |
Source(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ha | acre | |||||
| 1 | Alfred | 3,050 | 7,500 | 1925 | ||
| 2 | Alpine | 646,000 | 1,600,000 | 1989 | ||
| 3 | Barmah | 28,521 | 70,480 | 2010 | ||
| 4 | Baw Baw | 13,300 | 33,000 | April 1979 | ||
| 5 | Brisbane Ranges | 7,718 | 19,070 | 15 August 1973 | ||
| 6 | Burrowa-Pine Mountain | 18,400 | 45,000 | 16 May 1978 | ||
| 7 | Chiltern-Mount Pilot | 21,600 | 53,000 | 30 October 2002 | ||
| 8 | Churchill | 271 | 670 | 12 February 1941 | ||
| 9 | Cobboboonee | 18,510 | 45,700 | November 2008 | ||
| 10 | Coopracambra | 38,800 | 96,000 | 1988 | ||
| 11 | Croajingolong | 87,500 | 216,000 | 26 April 1979 | ||
| 12 | Dandenong Ranges | 3,215 | 7,940 | 13 December 1987 | Includes the former Ferntree Gully NP | |
| 13 | Errinundra | 26,875 | 66,410 | 15 July 1988 | ||
| 14 | French Island | 11,100 | 27,000 | 28 June 1998 | ||
| 15 | Grampians | 168,000 | 420,000 | 1 July 1984 | ||
| 16 | Great Otway | 103,000 | 250,000 | 11 December 2005 | ||
| 17 | Greater Bendigo | 17,007 | 42,030 | 30 October 2002 | ||
| 18 | Gunbower | 9,330 | 23,100 | June 2010 | ||
| 19 | Hattah-Kulkyne | 49,975 | 123,490 | 7 June 1960 | ||
| 20 | Heathcote-Graytown | 12,833 | 31,710 | 30 October 2002 | ||
| 21 | Kara Kara | 13,990 | 34,600 | 30 October 2002 | ||
| 22 | Kinglake | 22,360 | 55,300 | 7 March 1928 | ||
| 23 | Lake Eildon | 27,750 | 68,600 | 4 June 1997 | ||
| 24 | Lind | 1,370 | 3,400 | 1925 | ||
| 25 | Little Desert | 132,000 | 330,000 | 1968 | ||
| 26 | Lower Glenelg | 27,300 | 67,000 | 1969 | ||
| 27 | Lower Goulburn | 9,310 | 23,000 | June 2010 | ||
| 28 | Mitchell River | 14,338 | 35,430 | December 1962 | Includes former Glenaladale NP; expanded 1986, and 2003. | |
| 29 | Mornington Peninsula | 2,686 | 6,640 | 1 December 1975 | Proclaimed in 1975 (as Cape Schanck Coastal Park); in 1988 (as Point Nepean NP); and in 1995 (as Mornington Peninsula NP). |
|
| 30 | Morwell | 560 | 1,400 | 26 November 1966 | ||
| 31 | Mount Buffalo | 31,000 | 77,000 | 1898 | ||
| 32 | Mount Eccles | 6,120 | 15,100 | 7 June 1960 | ||
| 33 | Mount Richmond | 1,733 | 4,280 | 7 June 1960 | ||
| 34 | Murray-Sunset | 633,000 | 1,560,000 | 26 April 1979 | ||
| 35 | Organ Pipes | 152 | 380 | 12 March 1972 | ||
| 36 | Port Campbell | 1,750 | 4,300 | 5 May 1964 | ||
| 37 | Point Nepean | 470 | 1,200 | 2005 | ||
| 38 | Snowy River | 98,700 | 244,000 | 26 April 1979 | ||
| 39 | Tarra-Bulga | 2,015 | 4,980 | 17 June 1986 | ||
| 40 | Terrick Terrick | 5,882 | 14,530 | June 1988 | ||
| 41 | The Lakes | 2,390 | 5,900 | 1956 | ||
| 42 | Warby-Ovens | 14,655 | 36,210 | October 2010 | ||
| 43 | Wilsons Promontory | 50,500 | 125,000 | July 1898 | ||
| 44 | Wyperfeld | 357,017 | 882,210 | 1921 | ||
| 45 | Yarra Ranges | 76,003 | 187,810 | December 1995 | Attracted circa 800,000 visitors in 2002 | |
State parks
Metropolitan parks
- 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
- 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
- Avon
- Big Desert
- Wabba
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
Nature conservation reserves
There are 328 nature conservation reserves including:
- Deep Lead Nature Conservation Reserve
- Jackass Flat Nature Conservation Reserve
- Long Forest Nature Conservation Reserve
- Mount Elizabeth Nature Conservation Reserve
- Mount Hope Nature Conservation Reserve
- Mullinger Swamp Wildlife Reserve
- Spit Nature Conservation Reserve
- Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve
Natural feature reserves
There are 1,522 natural feature reserves.
See also
In Spanish: Zonas protegidas de Victoria para niños
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