The tropical rainforests of the eastern coast of Australia (Gondwana Rainforests of Australia) occupy the territory of the states of Queensland and New South Wales, stretching for 500 km along the Great Dividing Range between the cities of Newcastle and Brisbane. Next to the last and is the famous Sunshine Coast (or the Coast of the Sunlight).

In fact, located on the entire eastern coast of the mainland, these tropical forests are divided into fifty reserves with a total area of ​​about 370 thousand hectares. Here, about half of all Australian plant families and about a third of Australian mammalian and bird species are recorded.

According to scientists, these forests were formed during the supercontinent of Gondwana, from which the modern mainland Australia later "broke away".