Garig Gunak Barlu National Park
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Location: | Northern Territory , Australia | |
Specialty: | Sea, coastal landscape with mangroves, rainforest, coral reefs | |
Next city: | Jabiru | |
Surface: | 2,207 km² | |
Founding: | 2000 |
The Garig Gunak Barlu National Park (formerly Gurig National Park ) is a national park founded in 2000 on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Australian administrative unit Northern Territory , 200 kilometers northeast of Darwin . The land area of the park is 2207 square kilometers, the total area with parts of the Arafura Sea 4500 square kilometers. The park emerged from the merger of the Gurig National Park with the Cobourg Marine Park . The closest city is Jabiru .
The park covers the entire peninsula and consists of floodplains , swamps , eucalyptus forests , palm trees, mangroves and a coral reef in the offshore Cobourg Marine Park. It is owned by the Aborigines and is co-administered by the Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory .
The historic settlement of Port Essington was in what is now the national park.
Web links
- Garig Gunak Barlu National Park on nt.gov.au (English)
- earthobservatory.nasa.gov (English)