Statistics
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Australia
Date of Inscription: 1988
Criteria: (vii)(viii)(ix)(x) Core zone: 894420 ha S15 39 0 E144 58 0 Ref: 486 |
Brief Description
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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