Australia Parks, Monuments, and
Nature Preserves Posters & Prints

Great Australian Bight is an open bay located off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia. It is an underwater structure made from the calcium carbonate secreted by corals which are marine animals.

A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Coral reefs are damaged by climate change, over fishing and coastal pollution. They have been reduced by 25% in the last ten years.

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Lord Howe Island Marine Park consists of the waters 3 nautical miles off Lord Howe Island, Ball's Pyramid and a New South Wales state marine park. The island group is a World Heritage Site.

FYI - The Pyramid, the erosional remnant of a shield volcano and caldera that formed about 7 million years ago, is part of the submerged continent of Zealandia.

Ningaloo Reef, located off the west coast of Australia, supports an abundance of fish, corals, and molluscs species as well as many other marine invertebrate. The beaches of the reef are an important breeding ground of the loggerhead, green and hawksbill turtles, who also depend on the reef for nesting and food.

Kakadu National Park is located south of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

Occupied by Aboriginal people for at least 40,000 years, the Kakadu area is renowned for more than 5,000 recorded art sites illustrating Aboriginal culture.

A billabong a small oxbow lake formed by a section of still water adjacent to a river, cut off by a change in the watercourse.

Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in Western Australia.

While only about 1,000 people live in the area, Shark Bay is home to about dugongs (sea cows), bottlenose dolphins, 26 threatened Australian mammal species, birds and reptiles, and a vital breeding and nursery ground for fish and crustaceans.

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Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

Uluru, a sandstone monolith standing 348 meters high, is Australia's more recognized natural icon.

Kata Tjuta is a group of large domed rock formations (bornhardts, commonly known as “sugar loaf”) just west of Ulura.

Mount Gambier, a maar complex in South Australia, is one of Australia's youngest volcanoes, forming about 4,900 years ago.

It is associated with the Newer Volcanics Province and a part of the UNESCO-endorsed Kanawinka Geopark.