Wet Tropics of Queensland
A World Heritage Site in Australia, inscribed in 1988 as a Natural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Australia
- Region
- Asia and the Pacific
- Inscribed
- 1988
- Category
- Natural Site
- Criteria
- (vii)(viii)(ix)(x)
- Property area
- approx. 8,935 km² (893,453 ha)
- Component parts
- 14
- Coordinates
- -15.6500, 144.9667
- UNESCO ID
- 486
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Tropiques humides de Queensland
- Spanish
- Trópicos húmedos de Queensland
- Chinese
- 昆士兰湿热带地区
Other World Heritage Sites in Australia
- Australian Convict Sites (2010)
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) (1994)
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape (2019)
- Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (1986)
- Great Barrier Reef (1981)
- Greater Blue Mountains Area (2000)
- Heard and McDonald Islands (1997)
- K’gari (1992)
- Kakadu National Park (1981)
- Lord Howe Island Group (1982)
- Macquarie Island (1997)
- Murujuga Cultural Landscape (2025)
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