I was looking at a range of international environmental agreements yesterday,
and happened upon the World list of RAMSAR sites at
http://www.ramsar.org/sitelist.pdf
I have reproduced the Australian section, with sites grouped by state [so people
who are interested can see where their nearest sites are].
It is interesting to see that all of Tasmania's sites were declared in 1982,
while a number of WA sites were only listed last year. Also of interest, most
sites in Tas, Vic and NSW are relatively small, while virtually all the sites in
Qld, SA and NT are very large [Coongie Lakes in SA would appear - not working
through the maths - to be bigger than all the sites in Vic, Tas and NSW
combined]. Mind you, you couldn't get a much smaller site than Hosnie?s Spring
on Christmas Island ...
Finally, it is interesting to see that there are Ramsar sites on the doorsteps
of Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne, and that there is a degree of clumping, with
multiple sites around SE Qld, SW WA, the Kimberley and the Top End ...
The List of Wetlands of International Importance
1 February 2002
AUSTRALIA / AUSTRALIE
* Apsley Marshes 16/11/82 Tasmania 940 ha 41º56?S 148º12?E
* Cape Barren Island, east coast lagoons 16/11/82 Tasmania 4,370 ha 40º22?S
148º23?E
* Interlaken Lakeside Reserve 16/11/82 Tasmania 520 ha 42º09?S 147º10?E
* Jocks Lagoon 16/11/82 Tasmania 18 ha 41º21?S 148º18?E
* Lavinia Nature Reserve 16/11/82 Tasmania 7,020 ha 39º45?S 144º05?E
* Little Waterhouse Lake 16/11/82 Tasmania 57 ha 40º52?S 147º37?E
* Logan Lagoon 16/11/82 Tasmania 2,320 ha 40º10?S 148º17?E
* Lower Ringarooma River 16/11/82 Tasmania 4,160 ha 41º54?S 147º56?E
* Moulting Lagoon Nature Reserve 16/11/82 Tasmania 4,580 ha 42º05?S 148º10?E
* Pittwater-Orielton Lagoon 16/11/82 Tasmania 3,175 ha 42º47?S 147º30?E
* Barmah Forest 15/12/82 Victoria 28,515 ha 35º55?S 145º08?E
* Corner Inlet 15/12/82 Victoria 67,186 ha 38º45?S 146º32?E
* Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands 29/08/01 Victoria 261 ha 38°04?S 145°07?E
* Gippsland Lakes 15/12/82 Victoria 60,015 ha 38º00?S 147º36?E
* Gunbower Forest 15/12/82 Victoria 19,931 ha 35º49?S 144º19?E
* Hattah-Kulkyne Lakes 15/12/82 Victoria 955 ha 34º41?S 142º26?E
* Kerang Wetlands 15/12/82 Victoria 9,419 ha 35º40?S 143º56?E
* Lake Albacutya 15/12/82 Victoria 5,731 ha 35º46?S 141º58?E
* Port Phillip Bay & Bellarine Peninsula 15/12/82 Victoria 22,897 ha 38º04?S
144º36?E
* Western District Lakes 15/12/82 Victoria 32,898 ha 38º10?S 143º31?E
* Western Port 15/12/82 Victoria 59,297 ha 38º22?S 145º17?E
* Blue Lake 17/03/96 New South Wales 320 ha 36º24?S 148º19?E
* Gwydir Wetlands: Gingham and Lower Gwydir (Big Leather) Watercourses 14/06/99
New South Wales 823 ha 29º18?S 149º14?
* Kooragang 21/02/84 New South Wales 2,926 ha 32º51?S 151º47?E
* Lake Pinaroo 17/03/96 New South Wales 800 ha 29º06?S 141º13?E
* Little Llangothlin Lagoon 17/03/96 New South Wales 258 ha 30º05?S 151º47?E
* Macquarie Marshes 01/08/86 New South Wales 18,726 ha 30º45?S 147º44?E
* Myall Lakes 14/06/99 New South Wales 44,612 ha 32º30?S 152º17?E
* Narran Lake Nature Reserve 14/06/99 New South Wales 5,531 ha 29º43?S 147º26?E
* Towra Point 21/02/84 New South Wales 386 ha 34º00?S 151º10?E
* Bool & Hacks Lagoons 01/11/85 South Australia 3,200 ha 37º08?S 140º41?E
* Coongie Lakes 15/06/87 South Australia 1,980,000 ha 27º20?S 140º00?E
* Riverland 23/09/87 South Australia 30,600 ha 34º02?S 140º51?E
* The Coorong, Lake Alexandrina & Lake Albert 01/11/85 South Australia 140,500
ha 35º40?S 139º00?E
* Bowling Green Bay 22/10/93 Queensland 35,500 ha 19º27?S 147º15?E
* Currawinya Lakes 11/03/96 Queensland 151,300 ha 28º45?S 144º19?E
* Great Sandy Strait (including Great Sandy Strait, Tin Can Bay, and Tin Can
Inlet) 14/06/99 Queensland 93,160 ha 25º28?S 152º54?E
* Moreton Bay 22/10/93 Queensland 113,314 ha 27º20?S 153º10?E
* Shoalwater and Corio Bays 11/03/96 Queensland 239,100 ha 22º40?S 150º17?E
* Becher Point Wetlands 05/01/01 Western Australia 677 ha 32º23?S 115º44?E
* Eighty-mile Beach 07/06/90 Western Australia 125,000 ha 19º31?S 120º48?E
* Forrestdale & Thomsons Lakes 07/06/90 Western Australia 754 ha 32º09?S
115º52?E
* Lake Gore 05/01/01 Western Australia 4,017 ha 33º47?S 121º29?E
* Lake Warden system 07/06/90 Western Australia 2,300 ha 33º48?S 121º56?E
* Lakes Argyle & Kununurra 07/06/90 Western Australia 150,000 ha 16º20?S
128º42?E
* Muir-Byenup System 05/01/01 Western Australia 10,631 ha 34º29?S 116º43?S
* Ord River floodplain 07/06/90 Western Australia 141,453 ha 15º15?S 128º22?E
* Peel-Yalgorup system 07/06/90 Western Australia 26,530 ha 32º49?S 115º42?E
* Roebuck Bay 07/06/90 Western Australia 55,000 ha 18º07?S 122º16?E
* Toolibin Lake 07/06/90 Western Australia 493 ha 32º55?S 117º36?E
* Vasse-Wonnerup system 07/06/90 Western Australia 1,115 ha 33º37?S 115º25?E
* Cobourg Peninsula 08/05/74 Northern Territory 220,700 ha 11º15?S 132º15?E
* Kakadu (Stage I & components of Stage III) 12/06/80 Northern Territory 683,000
ha 12º40?S 132º45?E
* Kakadu National Park (Stage II) 15/09/89 Northern Territory 692,940 ha
12º30?S 132º30?E
* Ginini Flats Subalpine Bog Complex 11/03/96 Australian Capital Territory 125
ha 35º31?S 148º46?E
* Pulu Keeling National Park 17/03/96 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 122 ha 11º49?S
096º49?E
Christmas Island
* Hosnie?s Spring 11/12/90 1 ha 10º28?S 105º41?E
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