Bladensburg National Park

Bladensburg National Park
Painted amadines ( Emblema pictum )
Coordinates: 22 ° 30 ′ 12 ″  S , 142 ° 59 ′ 17 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Table land with table mountains and Härtlingen
Next city:	Winton
Surface:	849 km²
Founding:	1984

The Bladensburg National Park (English: Bladensburg National Park ) is a national park in the center of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is 1,152 kilometers northeast of Brisbane , just south of Winton . The 849 square kilometer area was declared a national park in 1984.

fauna

The most common birds in this area are the painted amadine , the red-brown crowned emu wren ( Stipiturus ruficeps ), and the red-brown- throated honeyeater ( Conopophila rufogularis ).

Terrain forms

In the park there are grass steppes, river plains, sandstone mountains and table mountains . The most important watercourse is the often dried up Surprise Creek . When the floods occur, it becomes an interwoven watercourse .

The area in the south of the park consists of fragmented table land with table mountains and hardnesses . There are large areas of sand further south.

history

Bladensburg was once a sheep breeding station and is now protected as an area with high biodiversity . Most of it belongs to the Goneaway Tablelands sub-region of the Channel Country bioregion , but also includes parts of the Mitchell Grass Downs bioregion . The visitor center is now located in the old farmhouse in Bladensburg, which was probably shipped there in the 1910s.

In the park there are fossil dinosaurs , as well as old Aboriginal camps and ceremonial sites . At the Skull Hole , a waterhole in the park, there was an aboriginal massacre known as the Bladensburg massacre .

Facilities and access

The park is 10 miles from Winton by road. Camping is permitted on the banks of Surprise Creek . Drinking water is not available.

Web links

• Bladensburg National Park . Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing. Queensland Government

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Peter Shilton: Natural Areas of Queensland . Goldpress, Mount Gravatt, Queensland 2005, ISBN 0-9758275-0-2 , pp. 288-290 (accessed July 7, 2011).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Bladensburg National Park . Tourism Queensland. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
5. ^ ^{A b c} Howard Pearce, Kay Cohen, Margaret Cook: Heritage Trails of the Queensland Outback. Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane 2002, ISBN 0-7345-1040-3 , p. 75.