Anglesea Heath
The Anglesea Heath (German: Anglesea Heide ) is a 72 km² nature reserve, a heath with scrubland and open forests in Victoria , in southeastern Australia . The reserve is 100 km southwest of Melbourne . The village of Anglesea is to the south of this landscape, accessible from the Great Ocean Road . Not under nature protection are 5 km², on which the power station Anglesea of Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals and the associated coal mine are located.
natural reserve
Because of its biological diversity and importance, the nature reserve was entered on June 30, 1992 on the Australian National Heritage List . This landscape is compared with the 200 kilometers existing landscape of the Grampians Mountains .
67 km² are under the administration of the state conservation organization Park Victoria . The nature reserve is one of the richest landscapes in Victoria, as 620 different plant species grow there, including 80 orchid species , 8 of which are rare and 2 are endemic. It is a quarter of the orchid species that grow in Victoria. About 100 bird and 29 mammal species have been counted in the area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ environment.gov.au : Anglesea Heath / Bald Hills Area, Anglesea, VIC, Australia , in English, accessed April 10, 2012
- ↑ alcoa.com (PDF; 4.3 MB): Managementplan Anglesea Heath November 2002 '', p. 17, in English, accessed on April 10, 2012
Coordinates: 38 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E