Bulburin National Park

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Bulburin National Park
Australian red-eyed tree frog (Litoria chloris)
Australian red- eyed tree frog
( Litoria chloris )
Bulburin National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 24 ° 38 ′ 56.7 ″  S , 151 ° 30 ′ 28.7 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: subtropical rainforest
Next city: 25.00 mile (s) from Miriam Vale
Surface: 326.6 km²
Founding: 2006
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The Bulburin National Park ( English Bulburin National Park ) is a 326 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia .

location

The park is 120 kilometers south of Gladstone and 75 kilometers northeast of Monto . The park can be reached from Builyan via Bulburin Forest Road . After about 16 kilometers you will reach an old lumberjack camp. From here, you can only continue on a circular path through the park or via the Dawes Range Road to the Bruce Highway in a four-wheel drive vehicle.

Facilities

Camping is allowed in most of the national park. Except for a picnic area near the lumberjack camp, there are no other visitor facilities or designated hiking trails in the park.

Flora and fauna

Bulburin National Park is located in the basin of the Boyne River and Kolan River, as well as Baffle Creek and Granite Creek . Subtropical rainforest and densely overgrown patches of dry forest together with still young New Guinea araucarias (English hoop pines ) cover more than half of the area. Overall, it is the largest remaining rainforest area in Central Queensland.

The other half is open eucalyptus forest or woodland made up of tall trees and a rainforest undergrowth. New England blackbutts ( Eucalyptus campanulata ) and lemon eucalyptus ( Corymbia citriodora ) are found on the more exposed locations along the western slopes .

The forests are home to a wide variety of animals, including long-tailed fruit pigeons , red-necked filander , red-legged filander and the Australian red- eyed tree frog ( Litoria chloris ). Rare and endangered species such as the long-nosed rabbit kangaroo ( Potorous tridactylus ) have also been spotted in the park. The only known occurrence of the bulburin walnut ( Macadamia jansenii ) of which only 40 specimens remain in the area of ​​the national park is also located .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Official Park Website - About , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012