Drovers Cave National Park

Drovers Cave National Park
Coordinates: 30 ° 14 ′ 4 ″  S , 115 ° 5 ′ 16 ″  O
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Specialty:	Limestone caves, some with fossils
Next city:	Jurien Bay
Surface:	26.81 km²
Founding:	1972

The Drovers Cave National Park is a national park in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia , 201 km north-west of Perth , 170 km southeast of Geraldton and 6 km east of Jurien Bay .

The area consists of limestone cliffs in which several caves have formed. The entrances to many of the caves in the park have been covered with canvas and are thus inaccessible to the public in order to avoid accidents and vandalism.

Some of the accessible caves are Hastings Cave , Moora Cave , Old River Cave, and Mystery Cave . Hastings Cave is known for its fossils .

history

Drovers Cave was well known to early explorers and stockmen ; its location near the Canning Stock Route meant it was often visited by cowboys (au-drover), hence its name. The first cowboy left his mark on the cave wall in 1886. Between 1930 and 1940 there were many other such visits. In 1973 the cave was measured and declared a national park in the same year.

Flora and fauna

The ancestral vegetation in the park consists of bushbanks , one-sides bottlebrush (Calothamnus quadrifidus) and parrot bush (Banksia sessilis). Animals include emus , honey bucket , western dormouse , short-billed hedgehog , western gray giant kangaroos , Australian bustards and many reptiles .

Web links

Drovers Cave National Park . Department of Environment and Conservation. Western Australia Government

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Department of Environment and Conservation 2009-2010 Annual Report . ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2011 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. Department of Environment and Conservation. Government of Western Australia. ISSN 1835-114X   
2. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd. Archerfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978174193232-4 . P. 84
3. ^ Drovers Cave National Park . Total Travel ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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.  
4. ^ Drovers Cave National Park, Jurien East Rd., Jurien WA - Place Details . Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities , Government of Western Australia
5. ^ Drovers Cave, Western Australia . Western Australian Speleological Group (2008) ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Drovers Cave National Park . Planbooktravel (2008) ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.