Cherbourg National Park

This article describes a national park in Australia, Queensland . For other uses of the name Cherbourg, see Cherbourg (disambiguation) .

Cherbourg National Park
Coordinates: 26 ° 24 ′ 40.6 ″  S , 151 ° 59 ′ 31.2 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	dry rainforest
Next city:	70 kilometer (s) from Gympie
Surface:	9.95 km²
Founding:	2006
Narrow-leaved Red Ironbark ( Eucalyptus crebra )

The Cherbourg National Park (English Cherbourg National Park ) is a 10 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . It is named after the nearby town of Cherbourg .

location

It is located in the Wide Bay-Burnett region in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast about 155 km northwest of Brisbane and 150 km southwest of Hervey Bay . The closest town is Gympie . From here the park can be reached via Wide Bay and the Burnett Highway . 25 kilometers south of Goomeri , at the level of the Lake Barambah reservoir , you pass the national park at a distance of two kilometers. There are no access roads or visitor facilities.

The national parks Woroon , Nangur , Tarong and Wrattens are in the vicinity .

flora

The national park protects dry rainforest and open eucalyptus forest up to 430 meters high , including "Small-fruited Gray Gums" ( Eucalyptus propinqua ), "Rusty Gums" ( Angophora leiocarpa ), "Narrow-leaved Red Ironbark" ( Eucalyptus crebra ) and "Gum-topped Box" ( Eucalyptus moluccana ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b} OSM - Cherbourg National Park , OpenStreetMap , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
3. ↑ Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012.