Protected areas of Tasmania

Tasmania is the smallest state in Australia, and has many protected areas.

As of 3 September 2012 there were 584 pieces of reserved land (private and public) managed under the National Parks and Reserved Land Management Act 2002, equalling 2,584,126.33ha.[1] This Act recognises ten classes of reserved land, each with different management objectives.[2]

Land is also declared as reserves and/or protected under other state and federal Acts including the Regional Forest Agreement (Land Classification) Act 1998, Crown Lands Act 1976 and Forestry Act 1920.

Conservation areas

Generally IUCN Category V or VI

  • 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 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

Game reserves

IUCN Category VI

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 Historic Site
  • Ross Female Convict Station
  • Shot Tower
  • Strahan Customs House
  • Sydney Cove
  • Tasman Monument
  • The Female Factory
  • Toll House
  • Waubadebars Grave
  • Yorktown

National parks

Nature recreation areas

IUCN Category III, V or VI

Nature reserves

IUCN IV or Ia

Regional reserves

IUCN Category VI

State recreation areas

IUCN Category III, II or Ia

Marine nature reserves, Marine national parks and Marine conservation areas

(these are not separate reserve types)

Public Reserves

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

Indigenous protected areas

See also

References

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