Croajingolong National Park

Croajingolong National Park
	The Thurra River as seen from the highest sand dune in Croajingolong National Park
Location:	Victoria , Australia
Specialty:	Sand dunes, bays
Surface:	875 km²
Founding:	1979
	Looking north to Rame Head
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The Croajingolong National Park is a national park on the coast in the far east of the Australian state of Victoria , 427 km east of Melbourne . The park has an elongated shape and is bordered to the south by the Tasman Sea , to the west by the Bemm River and to the east by the small town of Mallacoota . The northern border consists of dense bushland and low hills.

The name probably comes from the Aboriginal tribe of the Krowathunkooloong who lived in this area of Victoria.

Biosphere reserve

Croajingolong National Park and the adjacent Nadgee Nature Reserve in New South Wales form one of fourteen biosphere reserves in Australia. It includes ecosystems , important habitats and also gene pools that are managed in such a way that they are both protected and its resources can be used to conserve species. . The park is approximately 80 km long and 20 km wide; it covers an area of 875 km². There are popular campsites on the Thurra River , Mueller Inlet and Wingan Inlet . 100 km along the park runs the Wilderness Coast Walk , a hiking trail that leads along beaches, reed colonies and over wild, rocky promontories.

The Croajingolong National Park includes the Sandpatch Wilderness Area and connects to the Cape Howe Wilderness Area and the Nadgee Nature Reserve - the latter already in New South Wales.

history

In 1770, James Cook was the first European to discover the east coast of Australia and with it the area of today's Croajingolong National Park. He named the Point Hicks headland after Zachary Hickes , the lieutenant captain on Cook's ship Endeavor who is said to have been the first to sight Australia. The English explorer George Bass had to go ashore in 1797 because of a storm at the mouth of the Wingan River and used the time to explore the area. In the 1830s the area around East Gippsland was explored more and more, so that in 1842 the first white settlers settled in the Croajingolong.

The Aborigines, who lived there by hunting, gathering and fishing for 17,000 years, were gradually displaced. They tried to defend their land against the new settlers, but were subject to the better weapons of the Europeans and the diseases that they brought with them. Transport difficulties protected the area from large-scale agriculture and it was mainly used for fish and timber industries. When the area began to attract tourists in the 20th century, the Croajingolong was officially declared a national park in 1979.

Popular destinations in Croajingolong National Park

Point Hicks and its lighthouse
Tamboon Inlet, settlement in the park
Spectacular sand dunes on the Thurra River
Lake Elusive near Wingan Inlet
Mount Everard .
Rame Head, a cape

Cities and settlements nearby

Mallacoota
Genoa
Cann River
Bemm River
Orbost

Bibliography

Cronin, Leonard: Key Guide to Australia's National Parks , Australia, New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd, 1998.

Web links

Commons : Croajingolong National Park - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Croajingolong National Park . Parks Victoria
Sandi Rigbi: '' Hand made artist's book of etchings '' . The book was created after a hike in Croajingolong National Park. Copy No. 5 belongs to the Australian Library of Art in the Queensland State Library .

Individual evidence

^ Government of Australia: Australias Biosphere Reserves

[1] Government of Australia: Australias Biosphere Reserves