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Arafura Swamp
The Arafura Swamp, known to its Yolngu Traditional Owners as Gurruwiling, is a large freshwater wetland in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, holding Australia's largest paperbark swamp and over 300,000 waterbirds.
Beeliar Wetlands
Beeliar Wetlands: two chains of lakes and swamps in Perth's southern suburbs, mostly within Beeliar Regional Park; Thomsons Lake is Ramsar-listed, and the 2021 MRS Act rezoned the wetlands for permanent protection.
Caryapundy Swamp
Caryapundy Swamp, Ramsar Site no. 2520, is a 70,176-hectare ephemeral wetland in Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park, NSW, Australia, the terminal basin of the endorheic Bulloo River, listed 17 December 2021 for threatened species and waterbird habitat.
Eighty Mile Beach
Eighty Mile Beach, Western Australia: a 220 km coastline and Mandora Salt Marsh Ramsar site (no. 480, listed 1990, 175,487 ha) between Port Hedland and Broome, a major East Asian-Australasian flyway shorebird stop-over supporting up to 500,000 birds.
Farewell Spit
Farewell Spit (Onetahua) is New Zealand's longest sand spit, 25 km, at the northern tip of the South Island; a Ramsar wetland, bird sanctuary, pilot whale stranding site, and home to an 1870 lighthouse.
Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps
Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps: two Ramsar-listed wetlands (designated 21 October 2002) near Leeton, Riverina, NSW, Australia, famed for waterbird diversity, threatened Australasian bittern and brolga, and Wiradjuri heritage at Koonadan.
Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River
Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River, Ramsar Site no. 257, is a 3,534-hectare Tasmanian wetland designated in 1982, meeting Ramsar criteria 1-4 with six threatened species and 11 migratory bird species.
Lake Argyle
Lake Argyle, Western Australia's largest and Australia's second-largest freshwater lake, is an Ord River reservoir created by the Argyle Dam (opened 1972), storing 11,000,000 megalitres for irrigation, hydroelectricity, and the Ramsar-listed Lakes Argyle and Kununurra wetlands.
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora, also called Te Waihora, is a shallow, brackish coastal lake-lagoon in Canterbury, New Zealand, separated from the sea by Kaitorete Spit.
Lake Galilee (Queensland)
Lake Galilee is a 29,659-hectare intermittent, internally draining lake in the Desert Uplands of central Queensland, part of the Lake Eyre Basin, a DIWA nationally important wetland and Key Biodiversity Area supporting up to 10,000 pelicans.
Lake Wairarapa
Lake Wairarapa, also part of Wairarapa Moana, is a shallow 7,850 ha freshwater lake in the southern North Island of New Zealand, the Wellington Region's largest lake, supertrophic, protected by a 1989 water conservation order and a 2020 Ramsar designation.
Lake Warden system
Lake Warden system, a Ramsar-listed (7 June 1990) complex of saline lakes and marshes near Esperance, Western Australia, covering about 1,999 ha, important for hooded plover, chestnut teal and 25 migratory waterbird species.
Lakes Argyle and Kununurra
Lakes Argyle and Kununurra: Ramsar-listed artificial freshwater wetlands on the Ord River in the East Kimberley, Western Australia, formed by the 1963 Diversion Dam and 1972 Argyle Dam; Lake Argyle is Australia's second-largest freshwater lake and a major freshwater crocodile and waterbird refuge.
Little Waterhouse Lake
Little Waterhouse Lake is a 56-hectare Ramsar wetland site (Site No. 260, listed 16 November 1982) in northeast Tasmania: a brackish coastal freshwater lagoon between dunes, home to dwarf galaxias, green and gold frog, and rare clubsedges.
Logan Lagoon
Logan Lagoon (Ramsar site no. 252) is a 2,257-hectare coastal estuarine wetland on Flinders Island, Tasmania, listed 16 November 1982; a migratory shorebird refuge meeting Ramsar criteria 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6.
Macquarie Marshes
Macquarie Marshes: ~200,000 ha intermittently flooded wetland complex on the lower Macquarie River, NSW, Australia; Ramsar-listed (19,850 ha, 1986/2000/2012); degraded by river regulation since Burrendong Dam (1967).
Muir-Byenup System
Muir-Byenup System, Ramsar site 1050 in south-west Western Australia near Manjimup: a 10,631-hectare complex of lakes and peat swamps, listed 2001, important for waterbirds, endemic fish and threatened orchids.
Peel-Yalgorup system
Peel-Yalgorup System, Ramsar Site 482, wetland of international importance near Mandurah, Western Australia; 26,530 ha, listed 1990, over 20,000 waterbirds, Lake Clifton thrombolites, Bindjareb Noongar country.
Riverland
Riverland Ramsar site (site no. 377), a 30,640-hectare wetland along 80 km of the Murray River in South Australia, listed 23 September 1987; meets 8 of 9 Ramsar criteria, supports 20,000+ waterbirds and threatened Murray cod.
Rushy Lagoon
Rushy Lagoon is a locality and farming property on the far north-east coast of Tasmania, whose floodplain wetland is part of the Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River Ramsar site.
Towra Point
Towra Point: 632-hectare Ramsar wetland (site 286, listed 1984) on Botany Bay's southern shore, 16 km from Sydney; largest estuarine wetland in the Sydney Basin, holding 40% of Sydney's mangroves and 60% of its saltmarsh.
Wetlands of Tasmania
The wetlands of Tasmania are the island state's marshes, lagoons, peatlands, and saltmarshes, including 10 Ramsar sites, 89 nationally listed wetlands, and some of the southern hemisphere's most extensive blanket bogs.