Coalstoun Lakes National Park

Coalstoun Lakes National Park
Coordinates: 25 ° 35 ′ 52 ″  S , 151 ° 54 ′ 32 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Crater lakes with dry rainforest
Next city:	Coalstoun Lakes
Surface:	26.3 ha
Founding:	1929

The Coalstoun Lakes National Park (English: Coalstoun Lakes National Park ) is a national park in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

The area was named by the manager of the nearby Ban Ban Station, Wade Brun , after the corresponding area in his native Scotland . At just 0.26 km², this is the smallest national park in Queensland.

location

It is located 236 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 22 kilometers southwest of Biggend on the Isis Highway .

Terrain forms

The park is located on Mount Le Brun , a volcano whose two craters occasionally fill with a little water. The shallow crater lakes are the Coalstoun Lakes . The now extinct volcano was formed around 600,000 years ago, making it one of the youngest volcanoes in Australia.

flora

The lakes are surrounded by dry rainforest , one of the few places in the area where this vegetation community still occurs. Bottle trees , moa wood ( Flindersia australis ) and leopard ash can be found there. The heart leaf bosistoa ( Bosistoa selwynii ), an endangered plant, grows in the undergrowth.

Facilities

There is a 1 km path around the northern crater lake. Camping is not permitted in the park.

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)

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 c d} Coalstoun Lakes National Park . Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved October 31, 2012
4. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 9