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.
- Inscribed
- 1988
- UNESCO reference
- 486
- Area
- 893,453 ha
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Counts are based on Zikzak's current UNESCO World Heritage dataset, sourced from UNESCO. Last updated 7 August 2026. UNESCO insights