Bald Rock National Park

Bald Rock National Park
View from the top of Bald Rock
Coordinates: 28 ° 51 ′ 9 ″  S , 152 ° 3 ′ 20 ″  E
Location:	New South Wales , Australia
Specialty:	Granite mountain
Next city:	Tenterfield
Surface:	75 km²
Founding:	1971

The Bald Rock National Park is established on 12 November 1971 75 km² large national park in the north of the Australian state of New South Wales on the border with Queensland .

The park is named after the "Bald Rock", a granite elevation that towers over 200 m above the surrounding area , and is located in the granite belt , a region in southeast Queensland that is characterized by a high occurrence of this type of rock. About 200 million years ago, Stanthorpe Adamellite , a type of rock with granite-like properties, a tonalite , intruded into the existing sediments and metamorphic rocks . While these rocks eroded , the more resilient Stanthorpe Adamellite was preserved. The regolithic rock has created a landscape with many island mountains in the area of ​​the park .

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• Bald Rock National Park on environment.nsw.gov.au