Deer Reserve National Park

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Deer Reserve National Park
Yellow Satinheart (Bosistoa transversa)
Yellow Satinheart ( Bosistoa transversa )
Deer Reserve National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 27 ° 5 ′ 8.2 ″  S , 152 ° 31 ′ 36.8 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Next city: 20 kilometer (s) from Esk
Surface: 32.28 km²
Founding: 2006
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The Deer Reserve National Park (English Deer Reserve National Park ) is a 32.8 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . The name comes from Queen Victoria back to 1873, the Queensland Government red deer (ger .: Deer ) gave, which then in a fenced area (ger .: Reserve , were taken), today's National Park.

location

It is located in the South East Queensland region about 65 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 200 kilometers south of Hervey Bay . The closest city is Esk . From here the park can be reached via the Brisbane Valley Highway . About 4 kilometers to the north, Esk Kilcoy Road branches off towards Kilcoy . After 20 kilometers, at the level of the small town of Somerset Dam , you pass the national park. However, there are no visitor facilities there.

The national parks Esk , Bellthorpe and D'Aguilar are in the vicinity .

National nature

The Deer Reserve National Park covers the area around the 677 meter high Mount Brisbane, which rises 500 meters above the Stanley River and the reservoir Lake Somerset .

flora

Open eucalyptus and rainforests grow , which are home to some endangered plants, e. B. Rusty Vine ( Marsdenia hemiptera ), Haloragis exalata , Plectranthus leiperi , Notelaea lloydii , Yellow Satinheart ( Bosistoa transversa ) and Hernandia bivalvis .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ Wildlife Queensland Newsletter Summer 2007 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 814 kB), www.wildlife.org.au, accessed on October 7, 2012 (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wildlife.org.au
  3. ↑ Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012.