Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

 is the smallest mainland state in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It contains 1966 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 33,780 km² (14.84% of the state’s area). Of these, 36 are National park

National park

A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or...

s, totalling 25,774 km² (11.32% of the state’s area).

The Parks are managed by Parks Victoria

Parks Victoria

-Department:Parks Victoria was established in December 1996 as a statutory authority, reporting to the Minister for Environment and Climate Change. The Parks Victoria Act 1998 makes Parks Victoria responsible for managing national parks, reserves and other land under the control of the state,...

, a state government organisation. There are also many smaller state areas which are subject to commercial activity such as logging.

Historic and heritage areas and parks

• Beechworth Historic Park
• Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park
• Nyerimilang Heritage Park
• Oriental Claims Historic Area
  Oriental Claims
  The Oriental Claims are a former gold mining operation, or claim, located 2 km south of Omeo, Victoria, Australia. The Oriental Claims are named in reference to The Oriental Company which mined in the area from 1876 to 1904, and also in memory of the many Chinese miners that worked the area...
  
  
• Point Gellibrand Coastal Heritage Park
• Steiglitz Historic Park
• Walhalla Historic Area
• Upper Goulburn Historic Area
• Whroo Historic Reserve
• Woodlands Historic Park

National Parks

As of 2011 there are 45 national parks in Victoria.

Name	Size (hectares)	Established	Notes
Alfred Alfred National Park Alfred National Park is a 3,050–hectare national park in Victoria, Australia, 388 km east of Melbourne. It was declared in 1925.Located in East Gippsland, the park reserves examples of warm temperate rainforest, particularly the jungle of Mount Drummer...	3050	1925
Alpine Alpine National Park The Alpine National Park is a national park in Victoria , northeast of Melbourne. It covers much of the higher areas of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, including Victoria's highest point, Mount Bogong and the associated subalpine woodland and grassland of the Bogong High Plains...	646000	1989
Barmah Barmah National Park Barmah National Park is a national park in Victoria, Australia. The park is located on the Murray River near the town of Barmah. The park was one of four established by the State Government of Victoria in 2009, ostensibly in response to increased pressure on remnant River Red Gum forest...	28521	2010
Baw Baw Baw Baw National Park Baw Baw is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 111 km east of Melbourne. It contains the Baw-Baw Plateau and Mount Baw Baw, a small ski resort, including nearby town, technically outside the national park....	13300	1979
Brisbane Ranges Brisbane Ranges National Park The Brisbane Ranges National Park is a national park in Anakie, Victoria, Australia, 80 km west of Melbourne. The park is the responsibility of Parks Victoria. The park covers part of the Brisbane Ranges, an area of hills of moderate elevation. The park features a number of walking tracks, of...	7718	1973
Burrowa-Pine Mountain Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park Burrowa-Pine Mountain is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 314 km northeast of Melbourne. The park is the location of Pine Mountain, Victoria the largest monolith in the southern hemisphere at 1.5 times the size of Uluru ....	18400	1978
Chiltern-Mount Pilot	21600	2002
Churchill Churchill National Park Churchill is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 31 km southeast of Melbourne. Churchill NP is in the suburb of Lysterfield South, which lies between Rowville and Endeavour Hills in the far north of the City Of Casey. It is also near the Monash Freeway and Stud Road...	1668	1941
Cobboboonee Cobboboonee National Park Cobboboonee is a national park in Victoria, Australia.Formerly the Cobboboonee State Forest, the park adjoins the Lower Glenelg National Park to the west. The Fitzroy River arises from the swamps within the park....	18510	2009
Coopracambra Coopracambra National Park Coopracambra is a national park in eastern Victoria, Australia, 380 kilometres east of Melbourne....	35000	1991
Croajingolong Croajingolong National Park Croajingolong is a coastal national park in Victoria, Australia, 427 kilometres east of Melbourne.The name is thought to derive from the aboriginal word Krowathunkooloong, the name of the tribe inhabiting that area of Victoria.-Description:...	87500	1979
Dandenong Ranges Dandenong Ranges National Park Dandenong Ranges National Park is in Victoria, Australia, 38 km east of Melbourne.Because the park is located in an urban area, the park has a long history of major problems with feral and roaming animals...	3215	1987	Includes the former Ferntree Gully NP
Errinundra Errinundra National Park Errinundra is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 352 km east of Melbourne. Errinundra National Park is centred on the Errinundra Plateau, a southwards extension of the Monaro Tablelands of New South Wales...	26875	1988
French Island French Island National Park French Island is the largest coastal island of Victoria, Australia, located in Western Port, 61 km southeast of Melbourne. In 1997 about 70 per cent of the island was declared the French Island National Park, and is listed in the register of the National Estate...	11100	1997
Grampians Grampians National Park The Grampians National Park is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 235 kilometres west of Melbourne. The Park was listed on the Australian National Heritage List on 15 December 2006 for its outstanding natural beauty and being one of the richest indigenous rock art sites in south-eastern...	168000	1984
Great Otway	103000	1981
Greater Bendigo Greater Bendigo National Park Greater Bendigo is a national park in Victoria, Australia. Much of the park lies within the Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for Swift Parrots and other woodland birds....	17007	2009
Gunbower Gunbower National Park Gunbower is a national park in Victoria, Australia established in 2010. It contains the Gunbower Forest Ramsar wetlands site for the protection of migratory bird species....		2010
Hattah-Kulkyne Hattah-Kulkyne National Park Hattah-Kulkyne is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 417 km northwest of Melbourne. The nearest regional centre is Mildura. It is a popular destination for bushwalkers and school camping trips.-Description:...	49975	1960
Heathcote-Graytown	12833	2002
Kinglake Kinglake National Park Kinglake is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 50 kilometres northeast of Melbourne. The park includes tracks , and camping facilities....	22360	1928
Lake Eildon Lake Eildon National Park Lake Eildon National Park is a national park in Victoria in the northern foothills of Victoria's Central Highlands, 111 km northeast of Melbourne...	27750	1957
Lind Lind National Park Lind National Park is a national park in eastern Gippsland, in Victoria, Australia, 353 kilometres east of Melbourne. It is situated on the Princes Highway between Orbost and Cann River....	1370	1925
Little Desert Little Desert National Park The Little Desert National Park is in Victoria, Australia, 375 kilometres west of Melbourne. It extends from the Wimmera River in the east to near Naracoorte over the South Australian border in the west.-History:...	132000	1968
Lower Glenelg Lower Glenelg National Park Lower Glenelg is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 323 km west of Melbourne. The major features are the Glenelg River gorge and the Princess Margaret Rose Cave....	27300	1969
Lower Goulburn Lower Goulburn National Park Lower Goulburn is a national park in Victoria, Australia.It is a linear park protecting the lower Goulburn River from Shepparton to its junction with the Murray River near Echuca....	-	1992
Mitchell River	14338	1963	Includes former Glenaladale NP; expanded 1986, and 2003.
Mornington Peninsula Mornington Peninsula National Park Mornington Peninsula is a national park in Victoria , 77 km south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. It is one of Victoria's most popular and most loved parks, protecting lots of the area's natural attractions and providing an important habitat for many forms of wildlife.-See also:*...	2686	1988
Morwell Morwell National Park Morwell National Park is a 560–hectare national park in Victoria, Australia, 140 km east of Melbourne. It is 16 km south of Morwell in the Strzelecki Ranges and preserves a remnant of previously widespread wet sclerophyll forests and some rainforest remnants restricted to deep creek gullies...	560	1967
Mount Buffalo Mount Buffalo National Park Mount Buffalo is a mountain plateau in Victoria , 200 km northeast of Melbourne. It is one of the oldest parks in the Australian Alps, being first established in 1898 when 1165 ha was reserved around Eurobin Falls...	31000	1898
Mount Eccles Mount Eccles National Park Mount Eccles National Park is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 270 km west of Melbourne.Mount Eccles is located inside the national park and is the site of the most recent active volcano in Australia. The first activity was about 40,000 years ago when Mount Eccles was formed by...	6120	1960
Mount Richmond Mount Richmond National Park Mount Richmond is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 313 kilometres west of Melbourne....	1733	1960
Murray-Sunset Murray-Sunset National Park Murray-Sunset is the second largest national park in Victoria, Australia, 438 km northwest of Melbourne. It is in the northwestern corner of the state, bordering South Australia to the west and the Murray River to the north...	633000	1991
Organ Pipes Organ Pipes National Park The Organ Pipes National Park , a protected area, is located in Victoria, Australia. It was established with the focus on conservation of the native flora and fauna, and preservation of the geological features in the Jackson Creek, a part of the Maribyrnong valley, north-west of Melbourne...	152	1972
Point Nepean
Port Campbell Port Campbell National Park Port Campbell is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne.-Features:The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne; featuring an array of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore...	1750	1962
Snowy River Snowy River National Park Snowy River is a national park in Victoria , 323 km east of Melbourne.Much of the park is classified as wilderness area, where vehicles are unable to visit. The park provides one of the last natural habitats at the Little River Gorge for the endangered brush-tailed rock wallaby...	98700	1979
St Arnaud Range	13900	2002
Tarra-Bulga Tarra-Bulga National Park Tarra-Bulga is a national park in eastern Victoria, Australia, 158 km from Melbourne in the Strzelecki Ranges. It is home to one of the last remnants of the indigenous eucalypt forests which once covered the region....	2015	1986
Terrick Terrick Terrick Terrick National Park Terrick Terrick National Park is a national park in Victoria, Australia, northwest of Melbourne, north of the town of Mitiamo and north of the City of Bendigo. It is an important remnant of Box-Ironbark forests and northern grass plains and is close to Kow Swamp, the site of a major...	5882	1999
The Lakes The Lakes National Park The Lakes National Park is a national park in Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne....	2390	1927
Warby-Ovens	14655	2009
Wilsons Promontory Wilsons Promontory National Park Wilsons Promontory National Park, commonly known as Wilsons Prom or The Prom, is a national park in the Gippsland region of Victoria , 157 km southeast of Melbourne....	50400	1898
Wyperfeld Wyperfeld National Park Wyperfeld National Park is the third largest national park in Victoria . Declared in 1921 and expanded significantly since, it protects more than 3,500 km² of mallee, woodland, and heathland in Victoria's north-west, about 450 km northwest of Melbourne.Like most of north-western Victoria, Wyperfeld...	356800	1921
Yarra Ranges Yarra Ranges National Park Yarra Ranges is a national park in Victoria, Australia, 92 km east of Melbourne. It covers the headwaters of the Yarra River in the ranges themselves and several water catchments for Melbourne's domestic water supply....	76000	1995

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
  Disappointment Reference Area
  Disappointment Reference Area is a scientific reference area within the Wallaby Creek section of Kinglake National Park. It is located in the Central Highlands of the Victoria, Australia, 50 kilometres northeast of Melbourne....
  
  
• 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
• Patterson River
  Patterson River
  The Patterson River is a partly man-made waterway located approximately 35km south-east of Melbourne, Australia in Patterson Lakes, Carrum and Bonbeach....
  
  
• 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

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

Wilderness Parks

• Avon
  Avon Wilderness Park
  Avon Wilderness Park is a completely undeveloped area of land in the southern part of Victoria's Alps, contiguous with the southern border of the Alpine National Park. It was declared in 1987 and protects of mountain ash and sub-alpine woodlands. Although there are no walking or vehicle tracks...
  
  
• Big Desert
  Big Desert Wilderness Park
  Big Desert Wilderness Park, on the western border of Victoria, Australia, is the oldest of Victoria's three wilderness parks. It is a protected area of 1,130 square kilometres, with no vehicular access, and no defined walking tracks...
  
  
• Wabba

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

External links

• Parks Victoria
• Victoria National Parks