Marine Park · AUS
Great Sandy
- Area
- 6 175 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2024
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2024
- Managing authority
- AU-QLD_DES
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
5 602 distinct species · 267 541 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology18 basins · 0 lakes · 51 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
105,3km
Basins crossed
18
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
8 953km²
Discharge in basins
2,9m³/s
Mean precip.
1 267mm/an
Mean T°
21,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,04
Mean runoff
265mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
46m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Poona Creeksub-area3 010,6 km²overlap324.41 km²5%
- Bassin de Beelbi Creeksub-area336,2 km²overlap31.30 km²1%
- Bassin de Susan Riversub-area290,6 km²overlap20.08 km²0%
- Bassin de Littabella Creeksub-area365,1 km²overlap16.25 km²0%
- Bassin de Croome Creeksub-area183,2 km²overlap15.27 km²0%
- Basin #70090sub-area66,8 km²overlap15.10 km²0%
- Bassin de Gregory Riversub-area2 327,6 km²overlap12.90 km²0%
- Basin #69970sub-area105,7 km²overlap10.83 km²0%
- Bassin de Baffle Creeksub-area2 541,2 km²overlap7.92 km²0%
9 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Coonarr Creeksub-area107,3 km²overlap6.32 km²0%
- Basin #70020sub-area32,5 km²overlap6.05 km²0%
- Bassin de Elliott Riversub-area339,9 km²overlap5.02 km²0%
- Bassin de Kolan Riversub-area22,7 km²overlap3.46 km²0%
- Bassin de Mary Riversub-area246,4 km²overlap3.40 km²0%
- Bassin de Theodolite Creeksub-area183 km²overlap1.92 km²0%
- Bassin de Deepwater Creeksub-area1 387,4 km²overlap1.60 km²0%
- Bassin de Kolan Riversub-area263,8 km²overlap1.56 km²0%
- Bassin de Kolan Riversub-area134,1 km²overlap0.33 km²0%
Rivers / streams (51, ord ≥ 4)
- Burrum Riverord 5len here11.43 km28%total40 km
- Baffle Creekord 4len here8.79 km11%total79 km
- Kolan Riverord 4len here8.55 km4%total196 km
- Gregory Riverord 5len here7.74 km10%total76 km
- Susan Riverord 3len here5.52 km24%total23 km
- Elliott Riverord 3len here5.34 km11%total47 km
- Stockyard Creekord 3len here4.25 km20%total21 km
- Kalah Creekord 2len here4.10 km41%total10 km
- Poona Creekord 2len here3.51 km17%total20 km
- Mary Riverord 5len here3.50 km1%total283 km
- Isis Riverord 4len here3.42 km10%total33 km
- Littabella Creekord 3len here3.33 km10%total32 km
39 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Big Tuan Creekord 2len here3.31 km23%total14 km
- Bunya Creekord 1len here3.21 km28%total11 km
- Kauri Creekord 2len here2.65 km19%total14 km
- Yellow Waterholes Creekord 2len here2.61 km12%total21 km
- Snapper Creekord 1len here2.34 km31%total8 km
- Carlo Creekord 1len here2.27 km65%total3 km
- Teebar Creekord 1len here2.17 km74%total3 km
- Theodolite Creekord 2len here1.99 km9%total22 km
- Scrubby Creekord 1len here1.89 km15%total13 km
- Buttha Creekord 1len here1.83 km94%total2 km
- Cherwell Riverord 3len here1.73 km8%total23 km
- Mosquito Creekord 1len here1.63 km11%total15 km
- Cooloola Creekord 1len here1.41 km63%total2 km
- Mullen Creekord 1len here0.72 km69%total1 km
- Searys Creekord 1len here0.65 km9%total7 km
- Duck Creekord 1len here0.54 km29%total2 km
- Wathumba Creekord 2len here0.54 km11%total5 km
- Maaroom Creekord 2len here0.50 km4%total12 km
- Poyungan Creekord 1len here0.45 km6%total8 km
- Bottle Creekord 2len here0.41 km3%total15 km
- O'Regan Creekord 1len here0.36 km6%total6 km
- Tenimby Creekord 1len here0.34 km9%total4 km
- Little Tinana Creekord 1len here0.30 km2%total12 km
- Bogimbah Creekord 1len here0.28 km3%total11 km
- Bowal Creekord 1len here0.28 km9%total3 km
- Beelbi Creekord 2len here0.26 km1%total22 km
- Rocky Creekord 1len here0.25 km9%total3 km
- Puthoo Creekord 1len here0.22 km1%total18 km
- Boon Boon Creekord 1len here0.17 km4%total4 km
- Alligator Creekord 2len here0.16 km19%total1 km
- Yidney Creekord 1len here0.14 km1%total15 km
- Geewan Creekord 1len here0.10 km10%total1 km
- Figtree Creekord 1len here0.07 km1%total5 km
- Wyuna Creekord 1len here0.05 km0%total19 km
- Bowarrady Creekord 1len here0.04 km1%total8 km
- Coongul Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal1 km
- Gerowweea Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal5 km
- Awinya Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal3 km
- Yankee Jack Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal4 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
- -24.62348, 152.19705
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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.