Dalrymple National Park

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Dalrymple National Park
Dalrymple National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 19 ° 48 ′ 41 ″  S , 146 ° 6 ′ 30 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Geological formation
Next city: 25.00 mile (s) from Charters Towers
Surface: 16.6 km²
Founding: 1990
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The Dalrymple National Park (English Dalrymple National Park ) is a 16.6 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia .

The national park was named after the explorer George Dalrymple (1826–1876).

location

It is located in the North Queensland region and is 40 miles southwest of Townsville and 25 miles north of Charters Towers . A dirt road branches off from Gregory Developmental Road at the level of Fletcher Creek Crossing, and after 2.5 kilometers you reach the park entrance. The road is temporarily closed in the rainy season between November and March.

The Pinnacles and Great Basalt Wall national parks are in the vicinity .

history

Remnants of the old town of Dalrymple can be seen on the west bank of the Burdekin River . Built in 1864, it was the first inland town of the former British colony of North Australia . With the gold discoveries on the Cape River in 1867 and on the Gilbert River in 1869, the city grew from a simple tent camp to a thriving city with five hotels and numerous shops. In 1870, however, a flood destroyed large parts of the city, this and other gold discoveries near Ravenswood and Charters Towers caused its decline. In 1901, 34 years after the city was founded, only a few relics, such as the cemetery, fences and old mine shafts, testify to its existence.

landscape

Dalrymple National Park was established to protect significant geological formations that were formed 2.4 million years ago. Basalt , limestone and sandstone can be found in the immediate vicinity . North of the Burdekin River, the 380-meter-high Mount Keelbottom rises 130 meters above the surrounding plains . Southwest of the river are three lava flows , the youngest going back to the eruption of the Toomba volcano 13,000 years ago, the two older layers can be dated back to 1.3 million and 2.4 million years ago. Some of the streams in the park, such as Fletcher and Lolworth Creek, have dug deeply through the various layers of rock. In some places there are basalt columns on one bank of the stream, on the other, 385 million year old coral limestone with numerous fossils from the Devonian .

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. ↑ Official Park Website - About , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012
  4. ↑ a b Official website of the park - Culture , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012 (English)
  5. ↑ a b Dalrymple National Park - Management Plan 2011 , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed on October 7, 2012 (pdf, English; 632 kB)