National Park · AUS
Great Sandy
- Area
- 2 245 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2020
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2020
- Managing authority
- AU-QLD_DES
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 913 distinct species · 42 264 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Great Sandy : 34 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology3 basins · 15 lakes · 30 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
238,2km
Lake surface here
7,69km²
Basins crossed
3
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
3 011km²
Discharge in basins
4,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 367mm/an
Mean T°
21,3°C
Moisture idx
0,05
Mean runoff
316mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
54m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (15, top by area)
- Lake Cootharabaarea36,5 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lake Cooroibaharea4,8 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lake Boomanjinarea1,9 km²avg depth8.8 m
- Lake Cooloolaarea1,6 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1418626area0,9 km²avg depth8.1 m
- Lac 1418441area0,7 km²avg depth7.4 m
- Lac 1418590area0,6 km²avg depth7.3 m
- Lac 1418264area0,4 km²avg depth4.8 m
- Lac 1418635area0,3 km²avg depth5.7 m
Rivers / streams (30, ord ≥ 4)
- Noosa Riverord 3len here52.90 km57%total92 km
- Wyuna Creekord 1len here18.77 km100%total19 km
- Teewah Creekord 2len here18.57 km99%total19 km
- Puthoo Creekord 1len here17.47 km95%total18 km
- Yidney Creekord 1len here14.63 km99%total15 km
- Coongul Creekord 1len here11.33 km100%total11 km
- Bogimbah Creekord 1len here10.29 km92%total11 km
- Duck Creekord 1len here9.32 km92%total10 km
- Poyungan Creekord 1len here7.58 km94%total8 km
- Bowarrady Creekord 1len here7.56 km99%total8 km
- Woralie Creekord 1len here7.15 km100%total7 km
- Kin Kin Creekord 2len here7.01 km46%total15 km
18 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Searys Creekord 1len here6.76 km90%total7 km
- Bennett Creekord 1len here5.16 km96%total5 km
- Gerowweea Creekord 2len here5.08 km100%total5 km
- Figtree Creekord 1len here4.94 km96%total5 km
- Wathumba Creekord 2len here4.36 km89%total5 km
- Yankee Jack Creekord 1len here4.06 km100%total4 km
- Eli Creekord 1len here4.05 km100%total4 km
- Boon Boon Creekord 1len here3.88 km96%total4 km
- Tenimby Creekord 1len here3.31 km91%total4 km
- Awinya Creekord 1len here2.95 km100%total3 km
- Bowal Creekord 1len here2.79 km91%total3 km
- Ungowa Creekord 1len here2.42 km97%total2 km
- Freshwater Creekord 1len here2.18 km100%total2 km
- Geewan Creekord 1len here0.95 km91%total1 km
- Coongul Creekord 1len here0.94 km100%total1 km
- Cooloola Creekord 1len here0.82 km37%total2 km
- Alligator Creekord 2len here0.68 km81%total1 km
- Carlo Creekord 1len here0.32 km9%total3 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -25.24728, 153.14526
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.