Brook Islands National Park

Brook Islands National Park
Two-color fruit pigeon
Coordinates: 18 ° 8 ′ 29 ″  S , 146 ° 16 ′ 56 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Breeding colonies of the two-colored fruit pigeon and various terns
Next city:	Cardwell
Surface:	63.9 ha
Founding:	1994

The Brook Islands National Park (English: Brook Islands National Park ) is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is located 1,246 km northwest of Brisbane and about 30 km east of Cardwell 7 km off the northeast tip ( Cape Richards ) of Hinchinbrook Island . The park consists of three islands - North Island, Tween Island and Middle Island - with a total area of ​​0.9 km². The fourth island of the Brook Islands, South Island , does not belong to this national park, but forms its own national park .

Facilities

The three islands may not be entered in order to protect the birds that breed there, especially the two-colored fruit pigeon ( Ducula spillorhoa ). Therefore, there are no roads, hiking trails or other facilities for tourists on the islands. However, you can go boating, diving or fishing in the sea around the islands.

The national park is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and has IUCN classification II.

fauna

Up to 60,000 two-color fruit pigeons breed on the islands in summer. The return of the parent birds to their nests every evening after collecting rainforest fruits on the mainland and Hinchinbrook Island is a spectacle for the watchers. After the birds were illegally hunted there in the early to mid-20th century, the population has long been protected and monitored by environmental activists Margret and Arthur Thorsborne . There are also breeding colonies of chinstrap tern , black-necked tern , little tern , rump tern and rose tern . Reefs breed on the beaches of North Island . The islands are listed as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International , because this area is one of the most important areas in the world for the two-colored fruit pigeon and the black tern.

Web links

• Brook Islands National Park . Environment and Resource Management, Queensland

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} P. Lavarack & JW Muldoon: Management Plans - Brook Islands National Park and Goold Island National Park . Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Brisbane 1999. ISBN 0-7242-4842-0 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ IBA: Brook Islands . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved June 6, 2011.