Curtis Island National Park

Curtis Island National Park
Giant stork ( Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus )
Coordinates: 23 ° 31 ′ 49 ″  S , 151 ° 13 ′ 16 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Coastal rainforest, beach, dunes
Next city:	Gladstone
Surface:	86.4 km²
Founding:	1992

The Curtis Island National Park (English: Curtis Island National Park ) is a national park in the east of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is 474 kilometers northwest of Brisbane , 40 kilometers southeast of Rockhampton and 30 kilometers north of Gladstone on the east coast of the island of the same name. The national park extends over the coastal areas from Black Head in the south to Cape Capricorn in the north.

The national parks Wild Cattle Island , Rundle Range , Capricorn Coast and Capricornia Cays are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

The park has coastal heather, coastal rainforest , sand dunes, beach ridges and salt flats . The rare giant stork ( Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus ) is also native here.

Facilities

There are no special facilities for tourists in the national park, but wild camping is permitted.

economy

At the southern tip of the island - south of the national park - tank and port facilities for shipping coal seam gas, including a gas liquefaction plant, were built.

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. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 11
4. ^ About Curtis Island . Department of Environment and Resource Management. December 9, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
5. ^ The Queensland Curtis LNG Project . QGC. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
6. ↑ GLNG . November 1st, 2011. Archived from the original on June 7th, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 7, 2011.