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Conservation areas

Adamsfield
Alpha Pinnacle
Ansons Bay
Arthur-Pieman
Arthur Pieman Conservation Area
The Arthur - Pieman Conservation Area stretches along the north-west coast of Tasmania and covers over 100,000 hectares. Much of the reserve is between the Arthur River in the north, the Pieman River in the south and the Frankland and Donaldson Rivers to the east...
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
Central Plateau Conservation Area
The Central Plateau conservation area is an animal & plant conservation area in Tasmania, Australia.The Central Plateau of Tasmania is the largest area of high ground in Tasmania...
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 Roland Conservation Area
Mount Roland is a Conservation area in Tasmania. It is in the north of the island, near the town of Sheffield. It rises to 1234 metres and there are a number of well-marked bushwalks suitable for a day of pleasant exercise. There are walking tracks from both Claude Road and Gowrie Park to the summit....
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 Cape Conservation Area
Table Cape Conservation Area is in the Waratah-Wynyard municipality in North West Tasmania not far from the coastal township of Wynyard, Tasmania. Geologically speaking it is a large volcanic plug. Most of the area is used for farming and rural residential use...
Table Mountain
Tamar River
Tamar River Conservation Area
The Tamar Conservation Area covers approximately 4,633 ha on the Tamar River estuary in Tasmania. It includes the Tamar Island Wetlands Reserve and a stretches through the upper part of the Tamar Estuary from St Leonards to the Batman Bridge...
Tathams Lagoon
Tatlows Beach
The Steppes
Three Hummock Island
Three Hummock Island
Three Hummock Island is an island with an area of 70 km2 and a high point 237 m above sea-level, in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group which lies between north-west Tasmania and King Island. The island is named after its three most...
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
Crayfish Creek
Crayfish Creek is listed as a protected forest reserve in North West Tasmania, Australia. It is home to the giant freshwater lobster , listed as a vulnerable species and - theoretically, rather than in practice - subject to federal protection under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity...
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 Victoria Forest Reserve
Mount Victoria Reserve is a temperate rainforest area in the North East portion of the Australian state of Tasmania. It is of acknowledged conservation significance and was identified as a high priority Recommended Area for Protection by authorities during the 1980s and protected as part of the...
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
Quamby Bluff Forest Reserve
Quamby Bluff Forest Reserve is a forest reserve situated in northern Tasmania, Australia. It can be found 20 minutes drive from the small town of Deloraine on the Lake Highway. Quamby Bluff is the mountain that is situated within this reserve. The walk to the summit of Quamby Bluff is a popular...
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
Coal Mines Historic Site
Coal Mines Historic Site was, for a period of 15 years , a convict probation station and the site of Tasmania's first operational coal mine, "serving as a place of punishment for the 'worst class' of convicts from Port Arthur".It is now the site of a collection of ruins and landscape modifications...
Currie Lightkeepers Residence
D'Entrecasteaux Monument
D'Entrecasteaux Watering Place
Eaglehawk Neck
Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania
Eaglehawk Neck is a narrow isthmus connecting the Tasman Peninsula to mainland Tasmania. At the 2006 census, Eaglehawk Neck had a population of 269....
Entally House
George III Monument
Highfield
Kangaroo Bluff
Lyons Cottage
Macquarie Harbour
Mount Direction
Old Trinity Church-Criminal Courts
Port Arthur
Port Arthur, Tasmania
Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. Port Arthur is one of Australia's most significant heritage areas and the open air museum is officially Tasmania's top tourist attraction. It is located approximately 60 km south east of...
Richmond Gaol
Richmond Gaol
The Richmond Gaol is a convict era building and tourist attraction in Richmond, Tasmania. The whitewashed stone buildings are the oldest intact gaol in Australia.Most of the gaol buildings have not been changed since convict times...
Ross Female Convict Station
Shot Tower
Strahan Customs House
Sydney Cove
Tasman Monument
The Female Factory
Cascades Female Factory
Cascades Female Factory was an Australian prison in South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.The site comprises five yards, cemetery and outbuildings and is contained within a rectangular city block....
Toll House
Waubadebars Grave
Wauba Debar
Wauba Debar was a female Tasmanian aborigine. Her grave is a historic site located in the east coast Tasmanian town of Bicheno, which memorialises her rescue of two sealers, one of them her husband, when their ship was wrecked about 1 km from shore during a storm...
Yorktown

Indigenous protected areas

Oyster Cove
Risdon Cove
Risdon Cove
Risdon Cove was the site of the first British settlement in Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, the smallest Australian state. Risdon Cove, which was named after William Bellamy Risdon, second officer of the ship Duke of Clarence. Risdon served under Lt...
Preminghana

Marine nature reserves

Governor Island
Governor Island (Tasmania)
Governor Island comprises two small granite islands, with a combined area of about 2 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of the Schouten Island Group, lying close to the eastern coast of Tasmania near the Freycinet Peninsula and the town of Bicheno...
Ninepin Point
Tinderbox
Maria Island
Maria Island
Maria Island is a mountainous island off the east coast of Tasmania. The entire island is a national park. Maria Island National Park has a total area of 115.50 km², which includes a marine area of 18.78 km² off the island's northwest coast. The island is about 20 km in length from...
Macquarie Island
Macquarie Island
Macquarie Island lies in the southwest corner of the Pacific Ocean, about half-way between New Zealand and Antarctica, at 54°30S, 158°57E. Politically, it has formed part of the Australian state of Tasmania since 1900 and became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978. In 1997 it became a world heritage...
Kent Group of Islands
Kent Group
The Kent Group of Islands lies in Bass Strait, Australia, north-west of the Furneaux Group. They form the Kent Group National Park.The islands were named Kent's Group by Matthew Flinders, "in honour of my friend captain William Kent, then commander of the Supply" when Flinders passed them on...
Port Davey
Port Davey, Tasmania
Port Davey is an inlet on the south west coast of Tasmania. It lies next to Bathurst Harbour and is sheltered from the Roaring Forties that buffet the south and west coasts of Tasmania. It lies within the Melaleuca to Birchs Inlet Important Bird Area. It is not populated, but has over time had a...

National parks

Ben Lomond
Ben Lomond National Park
The Ben Lomond National Park is located in the northeast of the Australian state of Tasmania, about 50 km east of Launceston. The park has an area of 18,192 ha and was established on 23 July 1947...
Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair
Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park
Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park is located in the Central Highlands area of Tasmania , 165 km northwest of Hobart. The park contains many walking trails, and is where hikes along the well-known Overland Track usually begins...
Douglas Apsley
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers is a national park in Tasmania, Australia, 117 km west of Hobart. It is named after the two main river systems lying within the bounds of the park - the Franklin River and the Gordon River.- Location :...
Freycinet
Freycinet National Park
Freycinet is a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, 125 km northeast of Hobart. It occupies a large part of the Freycinet Peninsula, named after French navigator Louis de Freycinet, and Schouten Island....
Hartz Mountains
Hartz Mountains National Park
Hartz Mountains National Park is located in the south of Tasmania, Australia. It is one of 19 Tasmanian National Parks, and in 1989 it was included in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, in recognition of its natural and cultural values...
Kent Group
Maria Island
Maria Island National Park
Maria Island National Park occupies the whole of Maria Island off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, 69 km northeast of Hobart or about 90 kilometres by road to Triabunna followed by a ferry ride. The island has had a mixed history, including two convict eras, two industrial eras, a...
Mole Creek Karst
Mole Creek Karst National Park
Mole Creek Karst is a national park in Tasmania, Australia, 168 km northwest of Hobart. It is the only national park in Tasmania created specifically to protect karst landforms...
Mount Field
Mount Field National Park
Mount Field National Park is a national park in Tasmania, Australia, 64 km northwest of Hobart. The landscape ranges from eucalyptus temperate rainforest to alpine moorland, rising to 1,434 metres at the summit of Mount Field West....
Mount William
Mount William National Park
Mount William is a national park in Tasmania , 234 km northeast of Hobart....
Narawntapu
Narawntapu National Park
Narawntapu is a national park in Tasmania, Australia. It lies on Tasmania's north coast, adjoining Bass Strait, between Port Sorell in the west and the mouth of the Tamar River in the east...
Rocky Cape
Rocky Cape National Park
Rocky Cape is a national park in Tasmania , approximately 400 km northwest of Hobart. The nearest town is Burnie.-See also:* Protected areas of Tasmania...
Savage River
Savage River National Park
Savage River is a national park in Tasmania , 233 km northwest of Hobart. It is the largest undisturbed area of temperate rainforest in Australia....
South Bruny
South Bruny National Park
South Bruny National Park is located on Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia, about 50 km south of Hobart. The park contains the Cape Bruny Lighthouse. The highest point of the park is Mount Bruny at 504 m...
Southwest
Southwest National Park
The Southwest National Park is a national park located in the south-west of Tasmania, Australia. The park is Tasmania's largest and forms part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area....
Strzelecki
Strzelecki National Park
Strzelecki National Park is a national park on Flinders Island, Tasmania , 307 km north of Hobart. It is named after Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki, a famous Polish explorer and geologist who made a lot of his explorations on the Australian continent....
Tasman
Tasman National Park
Tasman National Park is located in eastern Tasmania, Australia, 56 kilometres east of Hobart.-History:The park was proclaimed under the Regional Forest Agreement on 30 April 1999. The Tasman Island Lighthouse is located on Tasman Island, which is part of the park...
Walls of Jerusalem
Walls of Jerusalem National Park
Walls Of Jerusalem is a national park in Tasmania, Australia, 144 km northwest of Hobart. It forms part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area....

Nature recreation areas

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

Nature reserves

Albatross Island
Albatross Island (Tasmania)
Albatross Island is an 18 ha island nature reserve in Bass Strait in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group and lies between north-west Tasmania and King Island. It is part of the Albatross Island and Black Pyramid Rock Important Bird Area...
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
Reid Rocks
Reid Rocks is a small island nature reserve in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s New Year Island Group, which includes the much larger King Island, lying north-west of Tasmania in Bass Strait. It is frequently wave-washed and lacks vegetation.-Fauna:Reid Rocks is the only...
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

Regional reserves

Mount Dundas
Mount Murchison
Savage River

State recreation areas

Four Springs
Meehan Range

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