Clump Mountain National Park

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Clump Mountain National Park
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Clump Mountain National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 17 ° 49 ′ 13 ″  S , 146 ° 5 ′ 44 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Hill country with tropical coastal rainforest
Next city: Mission Beach
Surface: 312.41 ha
Founding: 1963
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The Clump Mountain National Park (English: Clump Mountain National Park ) is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is 1,287 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 38 kilometers south of Innisfail .

Terrain forms

The highest point in the park is Bicton Hill , a low hill steeply to the east and gently sloping to the west, which served as a lookout point for both the Aborigines and the first European settlers. The first settlers from England named the hill after their hometown in Devon .

Flora and fauna

In the park you can still find remnants of the tropical coastal rainforest , which previously covered the entire lowland in the Wet Tropics .

The area of ​​the park is accordingly also part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area , which has been designated by BirdLife International . It offers e.g. B. the cassowary , an endangered species of ratite that occurs only in the rainforests of New Guinea and Queensland, a habitat.

Culture

The Djiru Aboriginal tribe had lived on the land that now makes up the national park for thousands of years . The nearby Bingil Bay was a preferred resting place for the Aborigines. They made nets, dwellings, tools, weapons and even medicine from the plants of the rainforest.

Facilities

There is a three-mile hiking trail around Bicton Hill . There you can study the plants of the rainforest and occasionally see a cassowary.

The Bingil Bay Road leading from the settlement Mission Beach 4.6 km north to the park entrance. Mission Beach is accessible from the Bruce Highway ( El Arish exit ).

Web links

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. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 14
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Clump Mountain National Park . Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved October 31, 2012
  5. ↑ Important Bird Areas factsheet - Coastal Wet Tropics . BirdLife International. (2011). Retrieved December 16, 2011