Protected areas of Tasmania (Australia) - Definition and Overview

Tasmania may be the smallest state in Australia, but it contains no fewer than 495 separate Protected Areas with a total area of 22,034 km² (land area: 22,020 km² – 32.23% of the state’s area). 19 of these are National parks, totalling 14,308 km² (20.94% of the state’s area).

Protected areas of Tasmania

Conservation areas

• Adamsfield
• Alpha Pinnacle
• Ansons Bay
• Arthur-Pieman
• Asbestos Range
• Badger Corner
• Bay Of Fires
• Bernafai Ridge
• Boltons Beach
• Bouchers Creek
• Briggs Islet
• Brougham Sugerloaf
• Burnie Fernglade
• Calverts Lagoon
• Cape Portland
• Cat Island
• Central Plateau
• Chalky Island
• Chuckle Head
• Clifton Beach
• Coles Bay
• Coswell Beach
• Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair
• Cressy Beach
• Deal Island
• Denison Rivulet
• Detention Falls
• Double Sandy Point
• Douglas-Apsley
• Eaglehawk Bay-Flinders Bay
• Egg Beach
• Egg Islands
• Foochow Inlet
• Fossil Bluff
• Four Mile Creek
• George Town
• Goose Island
• Granite Point
• Granite Tor
• Great Western Tiers
• Gull Island
• Harry Walker Tier
• Heazlewood Hill
• Hunter Island
• Judbury
• Kelvedon Beach
• Lackrana
• Lagoons Beach
• Lake Beatrice
• Lake Dulverton
• Lees Point
• Lillico Beach
• Little Beach
• Little Boobyalla River
• Little Green Island
• Little Quoin
• Logan Lagoon
• Low Head
• Maatsuyker Island
• Mayfield Bay
• Medeas Cove
• Mile Island
• Millingtons Beach
• Mole Creek Karst
• Mount Bethune
• Mount Direction
• Mount Faulkner
• Mount Roland
• Mount Rumney
• Musselroe Bay
• Night Island
• Oyster Rocks
• Pardoe Northdown
• Parnella
• Peggs Beach
• Perkins Island
• Peter Murrell
• Pieman River
• Port Cygnet
• Port Sorell
• Ralphs Bay
• Randalls Bay
• Raspins Beach
• Redbill Point
• Reef Island
• River Derwent
• Roaring Beach
• Sandspit River
• Scamander
• Sensation Gorge
• Seymour
• Sister Islands
• South Arm
• Southport Lagoon
• Southwest
• Spiky Beach
• St Clair Lagoon
• St Helens
• Stanley
• Strickland
• Surveyors Bay
• Swansea
• Table Cape
• Table Mountain
• Tamar River
• Tathams Lagoon
• Tatlows Beach
• The Steppes
• Three Hummock Island
• Tiger Rise
• Truganini
• Tunbridge Tier
• Vale Of Belvoir
• Waddles Creek
• Waterhouse
• West Inlet
• Wingaroo
• Wright And Egg Islands
• Wybalenna Island

Forest reserves

• Andersons Creek
• Apslawn
• Arm River
• Arthur River
• Arve Loop
• Avenue River
• Badger River
• Balfour Track
• Bells Marsh
• Big Sassy Creek
• Black Creek
• Black Jack Hill
• Blue Tier
• Boco Creek
• Bond Tier
• Bonneys Tier
• Borradaile
• Boyd
• Break O'day
• Bridgenorth
• Brookerana
• Brown Mountain
• Brushy Rivulet
• Burns Peak
• Buxton River
• Caroline Creek
• Castle Cary
• Chicks Perch
• Christmas Hills
• Coppermine Creek
• Crayfish Creek
• Cygnet River
• Dalgarth
• Dans Hill
• Deep Gully
• Den Hill
• Den Ranges
• Denison Ridge
• Derby
• Dial Range
• Dickies Ridge
• Dip Falls
• Dip River
• Dismal Range
• Doctors Peak
• Dogs Head Hill
• Dove River
• Drys Bluff
• Duck River
• Eastern Tiers
• Emu Ground
• Emu River
• Esperance River
• Evercreech
• Fisher Tier
• Fletchers Hill West
• Flowerdale River
• Fords Pinnacle
• Franklin Rivulet
• Frome
• German Town
• Gravelly Ridge
• Griffin
• Hardings Falls
• Hatfield River
• Henty
• Hollybank
• Hopetoun
• Huntsmans Cap
• Huskisson River
• Jackeys Creek
• Jean Brook
• John Lynch
• Joy Creek
• Julius River
• Kenmere Creek
• Kohls Falls
• Lady Binney
• Lady Nelson
• Lake Binney
• Lake Chisholm
• Lanes Tier
• Laurel Creek
• Lawrence Rivulet
• Lefroy
• Liffey
• Lizard Hill
• Lobster Rivulet
• Long Hill
• Long Ridge
• Lost Falls
• Lovells Creek
• Lower Marsh Creek
• Luncheon Hill
• Lutregala Creek
• Mackintosh
• Maggs Mountain
• Martins Hill
• Mathinna Falls
• Meander
• Meetus Falls
• Mersey River
• Mersey White Water
• Midday Hill
• Milkshake Hills
• Millers Bluff
• Montagu River
• Montagu Swamp
• Mount Arthur
• Mount Bruny
• Mount Careless
• Mount Dromedary
• Mount Foster
• Mount Horror
• Mount Kershaw
• Mount Mangana
• Mount Maurice
• Mount Midway
• Mount Morrison
• Mount Ponsonby
• Mount Puzzler
• Mount Stronach
• Mount Thunderbolt
• Mount Victoria
• Mount Wedge
• Nicholas Range
• North Esk
• North Scottsdale
• Nunamara
• Old Park
• Oldina
• Ouse River
• Oxberry Plains
• Paradise Plains
• Parangana Sugerloaf
• Peaked Hill
• Pepper Hill
• Pipers River
• Plains Creek
• Porcupine Hill
• Promised Land
• Prossers
• Pruana
• Quamby Bluff
• Rayners Hill
• Rebecca Creek
• Reedy Marsh
• Remarkable Rock
• Rimons Hill
• Ringarooma River
• River Hill
• Roaring Magg Hill
• Royal George
• Sandspit River
• Sawmill Creek
• Sawpit Ridge
• Scamander
• Shakespeare Hills
• Snow Hill
• Snowy River
• South Esk
• South Weld
• Spinning Gum
• Springfield
• Staverton
• Stringybark
• Sumac
• Swan River
• Tahune
• Tanina Bluff
• Tarraleah
• Teds Flat
• Teepookana
• The Dog Kennels
• Tippogoree Hills
• Tombstone Creek
• Tooms Lake
• Trowutta
• Tungatinah
• Upper Natone
• Virginstow
• Warra Creek
• Warrawee
• Wayatinah
• Weavers Creek
• Welcome Swamp
• Wentworth Creek
• Wes Beckett
• Wild Bee
• Winterbrook Falls
• Yellow Bluff Creek

Game reserves

• Actaeon Island
• Bird Island
• Bruny Island Neck
• Farm Cove
• Lake Tiberias
• Little Dog Island
• Moulting Lagoon
• New Year Island
• North East River
• Petrel Islands
• Stack Island

Historic sites

• Batchelors Grave
• Callington Mill
• Coal Mines
• Currie Lightkeepers Residence
• D'entrecasteaux Monument
• D'entrecasteaux Watering Place
• Eaglehawk Neck
• Entally House
• George III Monument
• Highfield
• Kangaroo Bluff
• Lyons Cottage
• Macquarie Harbour
• Mount Direction
• Old Trinity Church-Criminal Courts
• Port Arthur
• Richmond Gaol
• Ross Female Convict Station
• Shot Tower
• Strahan Customs House
• Sydney Cove
• Tasman Monument
• The Female Factory
• Toll House
• Waubadebar's Grave
• Yorktown

Indigenous protected areas

• Oyster Cove
• Risdon Cove
• Preminghana

Marine nature reserves

• Governor Island
• Ninepin Point
• Tinderbox

National parks

• Ben Lomond
• Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair
• Douglas Apsley
• Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers
• Freycinet
• Hartz Mountains
• Kent Group
• Maria Island
• Mole Creek Karst
• Mount Field
• Mount William
• Narawntapu
• Rocky Cape
• Savage River
• South Bruny
• Southwest
• Strzelecki
• Tasman
• Walls of Jerusalem

Nature recreation areas

• Briant Hill
• Coningham
• Gordons Hill
• Hope Island
• Humbug Point
• Kate Reed
• Knopwood Hill
• Lake Barrington
• Meehan Range (Mt. Direction)
• Meehan Range (Redgate)
• Recherche Bay
• Rosny Hill
• Snug Falls
• South Arm

Nature reserves

• Albatross Island
• Bass Pyramid
• Betsey Island
• Big Green Island
• Black Pyramid Rock
• Cape Bernier
• Cape Deslacs
• Chappell Islands
• Christmas Island
• Clarke Island
• Coal River Gorge
• Curtis Island
• Dennes Hill
• Devils Tower
• Diamond Island
• Dismal Swamp
• Duckholes Lagoons
• East Kangaroo Island
• East Risdon
• Foster Islands
• George Rocks
• Green Island
• Green Point
• Hawley
• Hospital Creek
• Ile Des Phoques
• Isabella Island
• Judgement Rocks
• Kentford Forest
• Lake Johnston
• Lavinia
• Lime Bay
• Long Spit (private)
• Low Islets
• Moriarty Rocks
• Native Point
• North East Islet
• Penguin Islet
• Peter Murrell
• Pitt Water
• Reid Rocks
• Rodondo Island
• Sith Cala
• Tenth Island
• The Doughboys
• Three Hummock Island
• Three Sisters-Goat Island
• Tom Gibson
• Township Lagoon
• West Moncoeur Island
• Wingaroo
• Wright Rock

Protected areas

• Seven Mile Beach

Regional reserves

• Mount Dundas
• Mount Murchison
• Savage River

State recreation areas

• Four Springs
• Meehan Range

State reserves

• Alum Cliffs
• Bradys Lookout
• Derwent Cliffs
• Devils Gullet
• Eaglehawk Bay
• Eugenana
• Fairy Glade
• Ferndene
• Forest Vale
• Forth Falls
• Gunns Plains Cave
• Hastings Caves
• Hellyer Gorge
• Henty Glacial Moraine
• Holwell Gorge
• Ida Bay
• Junee Cave
• Kimberley Springs
• Liffey Falls
• Little Beach
• Little Peggs Beach
• Lookout Rock
• Marriotts Falls
• Mount Arthur
• Mount Barrow
• Mount Barrow Falls
• Mount Montgomery
• Notley Gorge
• Palmers Lookout
• Pieman River
• Pirates Bay
• Quarantine
• Roger River
• Safety Cove
• Seal Rocks
• St Columba Falls
• St Marys Pass
• St Patricks Head
• Stewarts Bay
• Sundown Point
• Tessellated Pavement
• The Nut
• The Steppes
• Trevallyn
• Trial Harbour
• Trowutta Caves
• Waterfall Creek
• West Point
• Wye River
• Yellow Creek

See also

• Protected areas of Australia

External links

• Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service (http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/ThemeNodes/SSKA-4X33SG?open)