Wet Tropics of Queensland
World Heritage Site
- Official name
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Wet Tropics of Queensland |
UNESCO
- Country
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Australia |
Map
- Continent
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Australia
- Location
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-15.6500° Lat, 144.9666° Lon |
Map
- Code
- 486
- Time Zone
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Australia/Sydney (AEDT, +1100)
- Current Time
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- Category
- Natural
- Description
- Inscribed 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 animals and plant species.
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