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Big Desert Wilderness Park Victoria
IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)
Big Desert Wilderness Park
Coordinates	35°39′30″S 141°07′57″E / 35.6582°S 141.1326°E / -35.6582; 141.1326
Established	26 April 1979 (1979-04-26)
Area	1,417.49 km (547.3 sq mi)
Managing authorities	Parks Victoria
See also	Protected areas of Victoria

The Big Desert Wilderness Park is a protected area in the Australian state of Victoria, Australia located in the state's west adjoining the border with South Australia. It is the oldest of Victoria's three wilderness parks.

The wilderness park consists of an area of 1,417.49 square kilometres (547 sq mi), with no vehicular access, and no defined walking tracks. It includes part of the Big Desert and also adjoins Ninety Mile Desert across the border in South Australia. As it is a dedicated wilderness area, there are no facilities of any kind, including toilets or campsites. However, hiking and small fuel stoves are permitted. The wilderness park is overlapped by the Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat Important Bird Area which identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of malleefowl and other species of mallee birds.

A large bushfire was ignited by lightning in the park in 2002 then spread rapidly due to strong winds and dry fuel. The fire soon joined another in the adjoining Wyperfield National Park and an area of 1,814 square kilometres (700 sq mi) was burned out. The fire burned for two weeks resulting in the loss of an abandoned house and 400 hectares (988 acres) of private property.

See also

• Protected areas of Victoria (Australia)

External links

• , Parks Victoria

References

1. ^ "Terrestrial Protected Areas in Victoria (2014)". Department of the Environment. 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
2. BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 29 September 2012. on 6 December 2011.
3. "Bushfire history". Victoria State Government. Retrieved 12 September 2015.

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Marine national parks Bunurong Cape Howe Churchill Island Corner Inlet Discovery Bay French Island Ninety Mile Beach Point Addis Point Hicks Port Phillip Heads Twelve Apostles Wilsons Promontory Yaringa
National parks Alfred Alpine Barmah Baw Baw Brisbane Ranges Budj Bim Burrowa-Pine Mountain Chiltern-Mt Pilot Churchill Cobboboonee Coopracambra Croajingolong Dandenong Ranges Errinundra French Island Grampians Great Otway Greater Bendigo Gunbower Hattah-Kulkyne Heathcote-Graytown Kara Kara Kinglake Lake Eildon Lind Little Desert Lower Glenelg Lower Goulburn Mitchell River Mornington Peninsula Morwell Mount Buffalo Mount Richmond Murray-Sunset Organ Pipes Point Nepean Port Campbell Snowy River Tarra-Bulga Terrick Terrick The Lakes Warby-Ovens Wilsons Promontory Wyperfeld Yarra Ranges Former Bogong Bulga Captain James Cook Chiltern Box–Ironbark Cobberas–Tingaringy Dandenong Ferntree Gully Fraser Glenaladale Hattah Lakes Mallacoota Inlet Mount Eccles Otway Point Nepean (1988-1995) St Arnaud Range Tarra Valley Tingaringy Wingan Inlet Wonnangatta–Moroka
State parks Arthurs Seat Black Range Broken-Boosey Bunyip Cape Nelson Cathedral Range Dergholm Enfield Holey Plains Kooyoora Lake Tyers Langi Ghiran Leaghur Lerderderg Moondarra Mount Arapiles-Tooan Mount Buangor Mount Granya Mount Lawson Mount Napier Mount Samaria Mount Worth Paddys Ranges Reef Hills Warrandyte Werribee Gorge Former Angahook–Lorne Barmah Carlisle Chiltern Coopracambra Eildon French Island Kamarooka Kara Kara Melba Gully (Great Otway NP) Nepean Pink Lakes Terrick Terrick Wabonga Plateau Warby Range (Warby-Ovens NP) Whipstick
Marine and coastal parks Bay of Islands Bunurong Cape Conran Cape Liptrap Corner Inlet Discovery Bay Gippsland Lakes Nooramunga Shallow Inlet Wilsons Promontory Former Cape Schanck Point Cook
Marine sanctuaries Barwon Bluff Beware Reef Eagle Rock Jawbone Marengo Reefs Merri Mushroom Reef Point Cooke Point Danger Ricketts Point The Arches
Other parks Wilderness parks Avon Big Desert Wilderness Park Wabba Wilderness Park Heritage / Historic parks Beechworth Historic Park Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park Point Gellibrand Heritage Park Steiglitz Historic Park Wimmera River Heritage Area Park Woodlands Historic Park

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