Gadgarra National Park

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Gadgarra National Park
Tricolor Parrot Madines (Erythrura trichroa)
Tricolor Parrot Madines ( Erythrura trichroa )
Gadgarra National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 17 ° 19 ′ 12.3 ″  S , 145 ° 43 ′ 10.9 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: tropical rainforest
Next city: 14 mile (s) from Atherton
Surface: 82.7 km²
Founding: 2010
Diadem-Masked Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana)
Diadem-Masked Parrot ( Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana )
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The Gadgarra National Park (English Gadgarra National Park ) is an 82.7 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . It is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland UNESCO World Heritage Site .

location

The park is located in the North Queensland region about 260 kilometers north of Townsville and 35 kilometers south of Cairns . The closest town is Atherton . From here you can reach the park via the Gillies Highway towards Gordonvale , about halfway there, the highway runs for a length of 10 kilometers within the national park. There are no visitor facilities in the park itself.

The national parks Crater Lakes , Wooroonooran , Topaz Road , Little Mulgrave and Danbulla are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

The park protects primary tropical rainforest that thrives along the eastern edge of the Atherton Tablelands plateau . It ranges from 50 meters above sea level, near the village of Goldborough in the coastal lowlands, to about 700 meters at the foot of Mount Bartle Frere . The tropical vegetation is home to a multitude of animals, over 80 different bird species have been observed, including the endangered Queensland Alangans ( Aerodramus terraereginae ) from the sailor family , the three-colored parrot finches ( Erythrura trichroa ) from the finch family and the diademed masked parrot ( Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana ) from the family of real parrots .

An endangered mammals in the park include the Queensland Breitfußbeutelmaus ( Antechinus godmani ), the Herbert River pseudocheiridae ( Pseudochirulus herbertensis ), the strip-ring tail Beutler ( Pseudochirops archeri ) and the spectacled flying fox ( Pteropus conspicillatus ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ a b Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012