Ramsar wetlands in Australia
Australia designated the Cobourg Peninsula Aboriginal Land and Wildlife Sanctuary, Northern Territory as the world's first Wetland of International Importance. Australia currently has 65 Ramsar wetlands.
| Site name | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|
| 1. Cobourg Peninsula Aboriginal Land and Wildlife Sanctuary | NT |
| 2. Kakadu National Park Stage I (including wetlands components of Stage III) | Commonwealth (jointly with the Traditional owners) |
| 3. Moulting Lagoon Game Reserve TAS | TAS |
| 4. Logan Lagoon Conservation Area | TAS |
| 5. Lavinia Nature Reserve | TAS |
| 6. Pitt Water and Orielton Lagoon | TAS |
| 7. Apsley Marshes | TAS |
| 8. East Coast Cape Barren Island Lagoons | TAS |
| 9. Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River | TAS |
| 10. Jocks Lagoon | TAS |
| 11. Interlaken Lakeside Reserve (Lake Crescent) | TAS |
| 12. Little Waterhouse Lake | TAS |
| 13. Corner Inlet | VIC |
| 14. Barmah Forest | VIC |
| 15. Gunbower Forest | VIC |
| 16. Hattah-Kulkyne Lakes | VIC |
| 17. Kerang Wetlands | VIC |
| 18. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula | VIC |
| 19. Western Port | VIC |
| 20. Western District Lakes | VIC |
| 21. Gippsland Lakes | VIC |
| 22. Lake Albacutya | VIC |
| 23. Towra Point Nature Reserve | NSW |
| 24. Hunter Estuary Wetlands | NSW (including privately owned component) |
| 25. Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert | SA |
| 26. Bool and Hacks Lagoon | SA |
| 27. Coongie Lakes | SA |
| 28. The Macquarie Marshes | NSW (including privately owned component) |
| 29. 'Riverland' | SA |
| 30. Kakadu National Park Stage II | Commonwealth (jointly with the Traditional owners) |
| 31. Ord River Floodplain | WA |
| 32. Lakes Argyle and Kununurra | WA |
| 33. Roebuck Bay | WA |
| 34. Eighty-mile Beach | WA |
| 35. Forrestdale and Thomsons Lakes | WA |
| 36. Peel-Yalgorup System | WA |
| 37. Lake Toolibin | WA |
| 38. Vasse-Wonnerup System | WA |
| 39. Lake Warden System | WA |
| 40. Hosnie's Springs (Christmas Island) | Commonwealth |
| 41. Moreton Bay | QLD |
| 42. Bowling Green Bay | QLD |
| 43. Currawinya Lakes | QLD |
| 44. Shoalwater and Corio Bays | QLD/ Commonwealth |
| 45. Ginini Flats Subalpine Bog Complex | ACT |
| 46. Pulu Keeling National Park (North Keeling Island) | Commonwealth |
| 47. Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve | NSW |
| 48. Blue Lake | NSW |
| 49. Lake Pinaroo (Fort Grey Basin) | NSW |
| 50. Gwydir Wetlands | Private landholders in cooperation with NSW |
| 51. Great Sandy Strait | QLD |
| 52. Myall Lakes | NSW |
| 53. Narran Lake Nature Reserve | NSW |
| 54. Becher Point Wetlands | WA |
| 55. Lake Gore | WA |
| 56. Muir-Byenup System | WA |
| 57. Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands | VIC |
| 58. Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve | Commonwealth |
| 59. Coral Sea Reserves (Coringa-Herald and Lihou Reefs and Cays) | Commonwealth |
| 60. Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Marine National Nature Reserve | Commonwealth |
| 61. The Dales, Christmas Island | Commonwealth |
| 62. Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps | NSW (jointly with Management Trust) |
| 63. Banrock Station Wetland Complex | SA (jointly with Corporation) |
| 64. NSW Central Murray State Forests | NSW |
| 65. Paroo River wetlands | NSW |
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