Marine parks: Queensland

  • Biohotspot has pages for 77 marine parks in Queensland.
  • Together they cover 106,707 km²; where parks overlap, the area is counted once.
  • 0.4 % of that area (443 km²) is in zones of IUCN category Ia, strict nature reserve.

The parks

Marine parks in Queensland, with their area and IUCN category Ia share in CAPAD 2024
Parkkm²IUCN Ia
Annan River17.50.0 %
Baffle Creek23.10.0 %
Ball Bay - Sand Bay74.30.0 %
Beelbi14.30.0 %
Bohle River47.90.0 %
Bowling Green Baynot shownnot shown
Broad Sound1,7030.0 %
Burdekin9240.0 %
Burrum44.40.0 %
Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam2160.0 %
Cattle-Palm Creeks71.30.0 %
Cawarral Creek31.20.0 %
Clairview Bluff - Carmilla Creek2580.0 %
Cleveland Bay2190.0 %
Cleveland Bay - Magnetic Island4110.0 %
Colosseum Inlet1190.0 %
Corio Bay47.00.0 %
Dallachy Creek16.90.0 %
Deception Bay14.90.0 %
Eastern Kuku Yalanji4,8050.0 %
Edgecumbe Bay1960.0 %
Edgecumbe Bay - Bowen4130.0 %
Eight Mile Creek3510.0 %
Escape River2690.0 %
Fitzroy River7790.0 %
Girringun7,1900.0 %
Great Barrier Reef Coast62,7560.7 %
Great Sandy6,1750.0 %
Halifax53.10.0 %
Hays Inlet12.20.0 %
Hervey Bay - Tin Can Bay1,7350.0 %
Hinchinbrook1270.0 %
Hinchinbrook Island area5940.0 %
Hull River15.00.0 %
Ince Bay (Cape Palmerston - Allom Point)69.50.0 %
Jumpinpin-Broadwater1040.0 %
Kauri Creek64.80.0 %
K'gari2390.0 %
Kinkuna16.30.0 %
Kolan River18.30.0 %
Llewellyn Bay1270.0 %
Lucinda to Allingham - Halifax Bay1130.0 %
Maaroom2390.0 %
Margaret Bay (Wuthathi)2790.0 %
Midge83.30.0 %
Moreton Banks63.20.0 %
Moreton Bay3,4270.0 %
Morning Inlet - Bynoe River3990.0 %
Murray River15.20.0 %
Myora - Amity Banks73.30.0 %
Nassau River1510.0 %
Noosa River60.80.0 %
Peel Island15.80.0 %
Pine River Bay2550.0 %
Port Clinton (Reef Point - Cape Clinton)1750.0 %
Port of Gladstone - Rodds Bay5070.0 %
Princess Charlotte Bay1,2270.0 %
Pumicestone Channel95.10.0 %
Repulse6980.0 %
Repulse Bay30.50.0 %
Rodds Harbour1200.0 %
Sand Bay1150.0 %
Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill13.30.0 %
Shoalwater Bay8060.0 %
Silver Plains5210.0 %
Staaten-Gilbert2220.0 %
Starcke River (Ngulun)3010.0 %
Stewart Peninsula - Newry Island - Ball Bay1620.0 %
Susan River48.40.0 %
Temple Bay1940.0 %
Thuwathu/Walalu16,5670.0 %
Tin Can Inlet14.40.0 %
Trinity Inlet71.70.0 %
Upstart Bay1920.0 %
West Hill1790.0 %
Wreck Creek12.20.0 %
Wuthathi6,8870.5 %

“Not shown”: some of the park’s zones overlap in CAPAD, so its area is not the sum of its zone areas (see its page).

Source and licence

A park has a page when it covers at least 10 km², at least 3 open habitat or pressure layers have data inside it, and at least one habitat, carbon or pressure figure is measured inside it. Computed on 2026-10-27.