Protected areas of Victoria (Australia)
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Victoria is the smallest mainland state in Australia. It contains a staggering 1966 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 33,780 km² (14.84% of the state’s area). 36 of these are National parks, totalling 25,774 km² (11.32% of the state’s area).
The Parks are managed by Parks Victoria, a state government organisation. There are also many smaller state areas which are subject to commercial activity such as logging.
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Indigenous Protected Areas
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National Parks
- Alfred
- Alpine
- Baw Baw
- Brisbane Ranges
- Burrowa-Pine Mountain
- Chiltern Box-Ironbark
- Churchill
- Coopracambra
- Croajingolong
- Dandenong Ranges
- Errinundra
- French Island
- Grampians
- Hattah-Kulkyne
- Heathcote-Greytown
- Kinglake
- Lake Eildon
- Lind
- Little Desert
- Lower Glenelg
- Mitchell River
- Mornington Peninsula
- Morwell
- Mount Buffalo
- Mount Eccles
- Mount Richmond
- Murray-Sunset
- Organ Pipes
- Otway
- Port Campbell
- Snowy River
- Tarra-Bulga
- Terrick Terrick
- The Lakes
- Wilsons Promontory
- Wyperfeld
- Yarra Ranges
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Other Parks
- Bay of Islands
- Cape Conran
- Cape Liptrap
- Discovery Bay
- Gippsland Lakes
- Langwarrin
- Murray-Kulkyne
- Reef Hills
- Tyers
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Reference Areas inside other Protected areas
- 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
- 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
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Reference Areas outside other Protected areas
- 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
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State Parks
- Angahook-Lorne
- Arthurs Seat
- Barmah
- Black Range
- Bunyip
- Cape Nelson
- Carlisle
- Cathedral Range
- Dergholm
- Enfield
- Holey Plains
- Kamarooka
- Kara Kara
- Kooyoora
- Langi Ghiran
- Leaghur
- Lerderderg
- Melba Gully
- Moondarra
- Mount Arapiles-Tooan
- Mount Buangor
- Mount Granya
- Mount Lawson
- Mount Napier
- Mount Samaria
- Mount Worth
- Paddys Ranges
- Warby Range
- Warrandyte
- Werribee Gorge
- Whipstick
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Wilderness Parks
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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
- Wilsons Promontory
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Also in Victoria
- 1522 Natural Feature Reserves
- 328 Nature Conservation Reserves
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See also
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