The Breadknife
Highly unusual cliff formation – 90 meters high volcanic dyke, approximately half a kilometre long and in some places just 4 m wide.
Ball‘s Pyramid
An unusual remnant of a volcano – 562 meters high and just 200 meters wide cliff rising directly from the sea. Tallest volcanic stack in the world. Up to the recent time, this was the only place in the world where the up to 15 cm long Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was living.
Dalhousie Springs
A group of up to 60 powerful thermal springs at the fringe of the desert. The temperature of water reaches 38 – 43 degrees C. Total discharge of all springs is around 17000 l/s. Numerous unique, relict species in this ancient ecosystem including several fish species.
Koonalda Cave
A cave richly decorated with approximately 20,000 years old drawings over area of thousands of square meters. Part of the cave flooded as the sea level rose.
Wooramel Seagrass Bank
The largest seagrass grove in the world, covers 1,030 square kilometres.
Tree heath south of Freycinet Estuary
Unique biotope with at least 51 endemic species.
Fraser Island
The largest sand island in the world, 1,840 km². Contains dunes that are up to 24 meters high, tall rainforest growing at elevations up to 200 meters, unique ‘vallum’ heaths, and more than 100 unique, crystal clear dune lakes retained in the sand by organic matter deposits.
Elizabeth Springs
Remote springs in an arid region, where over the last 1.8 million years has developed a unique ecosystem with endemic species, such as a fish – Elizabeth Springs goby (Chlamydogobius micropterus Larson), snail, four species of plants, etc.
Litchfield magnetic termite mounds
Unique landscape formed by multiple flat termite mound formations oriented in the north-south direction in order to control the temperature inside the mounds. These mounds are built by a specific species of termites – Amitermes meridionalis.
Hamelin Pool and L’haridon Bight
Hypersaline shallows with unique biotope – active growth of stromatolites – the oldest known form of life on Earth. Also other unique forms of life.
