D'Aguilar National Park

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D'Aguilar National Park
Manorina National Park (former park name, 1952)
Manorina National Park (former park name, 1952)
D'Aguilar National Park, Queensland
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Coordinates: 27 ° 3 ′ 38 ″  S , 152 ° 40 ′ 46 ″  O
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Eucalyptus forest, subtropical rainforest
Next city: Brisbane
Surface: 364.22 km²
Founding: 2009
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The D'Aguilar National Park (English: D'Aguilar National Park ) is a national park in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is located 31 kilometers northwest of Brisbane .

The park consists of two separate parts. The southern part includes the former Brisbane Forest Park , which lies in the southern D'Aguilar Range , east of Lake Wivenhoe and Lake Somerset . The northern part consists of former state protected areas around Mount Mee , west of Caboolture .

history

The first national park in the D'Aguilar Range was founded in 1930 and was called Maiala National Park . It was established by a volunteer group called the Brisbane National & Recreation Park Committee . The area around Mount Nebo was called Manorina National Park . In 1973 thought began to be given to expanding the park to cover the entire area between Mount Coot-tha in the east and Mount Nebo in the west. After a number of difficulties and opposition, the Queensland Parliament declared an area of ​​25,000 hectares a state park in 1977.

Since 1938 there have been several smaller state protected areas around Mount Mee in the northern D'Aguilar Range - Mount Mee State Forest and Forest Reserve - totaling 11,000 hectares.

In 2009 these areas became the D'Aguilar National Park.

flora

Eucalyptus forest and subtropical rainforest can be found in both parts of the national park . New Guinea Araucaria plantations can also be seen in the northern part .

Facilities

The park has many hiking trails and a visitor center (Walkabout Creek Wildlife Center) on Mount Nebo Road . The latter includes a zoo with aviaries, aquariums and enclosures for the animals found in the national park.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
  2. ^ A b Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007, ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 , pp. 3 + 5 + 7.
  3. ^ A b D'Aguilar National Park - Nature, Culture and History . Department of Environment and Resource Management. December 9, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b Helen Horton: Brisbane's Back Door: The Story of the D'Aguilar Range . Boolarong Publications, Bowen Hills QLD 1988, ISBN 0-86439-036-X , p. 100.
  5. ^ D'Aguilar National Park . Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved November 5, 2012