🌿 Wet Tropics of Queensland

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The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site is an area of approximately 8,940 km2 (3,450 sq mi) of very wet forests on parts of the coast and adjacent ranges of tropical Queensland, Australia. The area meets all four of the natural heritage selection criteria for a World Heritage site. World Heritage status was declared in 1988, and on 21 May 2007 the Wet Tropics was added to the Australian National Heritage List.

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Wet Tropics of Queensland is a natural World Heritage site in Australia, in Oceania. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Wet Tropics of Queensland was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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