Wet Tropics of Queensland

Natural
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Photo: User:Diliff / CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
Country Australia
Year inscribed1988
Criteria(vii) (viii) (ix) (x)

Overview

This area, which stretches along the north-east coast of Australia for some 450 km, is made up largely of tropical rainforests. This biotope offers a particularly extensive and varied array of plants, as well as marsupials and singing birds, along with other rare and endangered animals and plant species.

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Source: UNESCO World Heritage List — CC BY-SA 4.0