Flinders Chase National Park
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| Location: | South Australia , Australia | ||
| Specialty: | Remarkable Rocks, Admirals Arch | ||
| Next city: | Kingscote | ||
| Surface: | 326 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1919 | ||
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The Flinders Chase National Park is a national park in South Australia on the Kangaroo Island south of Adelaide . The park has a size of 326 km² and is divided into the three areas Cape du Couedic and Rocky River, Gosse Lands and the Cape Borda Lighthouse in the west of the island. The park was founded in 1919. The nearest town is Kingscote , about 110 km away.
The main attractions of the park are the bizarre rocks of the Remarkable Rocks , the colonies of fur seals at Admirals Arch , and the lighthouse at Cape Borda from 1858. Furthermore, numerous kangaroos and koalas are found in the park.
Wildlife
New Zealand fur seals , Australian fur seals and Australian sea lions can be found along the coast of the park . Showy land mammals are kangaroos , which are represented by two species. On the one hand by a special island subspecies of the western gray giant kangaroo and on the other hand by the derby wallaby . A purely endemic land mammal on the island that is found nowhere else is the kangaroo island narrow-footed pouch mouse . At other mammals come koalas , platypus , pseudocheiridae , common brushtail possum , Small short-nosed bandicoot ( Isodon oesulus obesulus ), Tasmanian cercartetus , thin tail cercartetus, swamp rats ( Rattus lutreolus ), also a subspecies of the Australian bush rat ( Rattus fuscipes greyi ) and a special island subspecies of the short-billed hedgehog . In addition, eight species of bats live in the park.
The koalas, platypus and ring-baggers were introduced from mainland Australia. The number of koalas has increased so much in recent years that many eucalyptus forests have been severely damaged. The national park administration tries to get the situation under control with sterilization programs. In the national park there are also some species that do not belong to the original Australian fauna. These are goats , fallow deer , pigs, house cats , house rats and house mice .
The kangaroo island emu was once endemic to the island but became extinct in the 19th century. Reptiles are represented by Rosenberg's monitor lizard , dwarf copper head , black tiger otter , striped fin foot , various skinks , geckos and an agame ( Ctenophorus decresii ). Six species of frog are at home in the park. The leatherback turtle occurs on the coasts .
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo, a subspecies of the Western Gray Giant Kangaroo
Kangaroos near Karatta
Short-billed hedgehog
Landscape on the coast
Bushland in the national park
Bush fire
On December 6, 2007, lightning bolts ignited a bush fire that burned 19,542 hectares of bush in the national park. This corresponds to 60% of the total area.
Even bigger fires raged over the turn of the year 2019/2020, which destroyed around a quarter in the west of the island. The bushfires also largely destroyed Flinders Chase National Park, including the visitor center. Much of the rare wildlife fell victim to the flames.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 'Unstoppable' bushfire engulfs large areas of Kangaroo Island. In: ABC News. January 3, 2020, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ All bushfires in the state of New South Wales under control thanks to heavy rainfall , NZZ from February 13, 2020, accessed March 26, 2020
- ↑ Bushfires take a devastating toll on 'Australia's Galapagos Islands'. In: The Sydney Morning Herald. January 5, 2020, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
B Belair | C Canunda | Coffin Bay | Coongie Lakes | Coorong | F Flinders Chase | G Gawler Ranges | I Ikara Flinders Chain | Innes | L Lake Eyre | Lake Gairdner | Lake Torrens | Lincoln | M Mount Remarkable | Murray River | N Naracoorte Caves | Nullarbor | O Onkaparinga River | V Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges | W Witjira