Boorara National Park

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Boorara National Park
Boorara National Park (Western Australia)
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Coordinates: 34 ° 44 ′ 24 ″  S , 116 ° 12 ′ 36 ″  E
Location: Western Australia , Australia
Specialty: wooded with large marri and karri trees
Next city: 10 mile (s) from Northcliffe
Surface: 11,008 hectares
Founding: 2004
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The Boorara National Park (English: Boorara National Park ) unofficially, Boorara-Gardner National Park called, is an existing six non-contiguous areas National Park south of Northcliffe , a town about 70 kilometers northwest of Walpole in Western Australia .

The area was declared a national park in 2004.

Numerous large karri and marri trees grow in this park . More than 30 species of orchids have also been found there. A bush fire that occurred in late February 2015 did not burn to the treetops of the eucalyptus and did not cause lasting damage to most of the trees.

In the national park there is the so-called Boorara Tree , one of the last remaining fire watchtowers from the 1950s. The tower cannot be entered. A replica of the original observation platform on the ground can be viewed.

The Lane Poole Falls is a waterfall of Canterbury Rivers in the park with a height of about twelve meters, which leads especially in the winter time Australia plenty of water and fills an underlying pool.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Department of Parks and Wildlife 2013-14 Annual Report (PDF)
  2. ↑ a b Boorara-Gardner National Park , on Parks.dpaw.gov.au. Retrieved August 15, 2017
  3. ↑ Boorara-Gardner. In: Protected Planet. Retrieved on August 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Australian Government - CapAd 2014 - WA summary . Terrestrial Protected Areas in Western Australia (2014). DSEWPaC , accessed on August 20, 2017 (English; MS Excel ; 53 kB)
  5. ^ Northcliffe locals on the road to recovery after one of the worst bushfires in Western Australian history , abc.net.au, February 27, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2017