UNESCO World Heritage Site

Wet Tropics of Queensland

Wet Tropics of Queensland is a natural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Australia, inscribed in 1988.

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 a

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.

Country
Australia
Region
Oceania
Category
Natural
Inscribed
1988
UNESCO reference
486
Area
893,453 ha

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