Goldfields Woodlands National Park

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Goldfields Woodlands National Park
Goldfields Woodlands National Park (Western Australia)
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Coordinates: 31 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  S , 120 ° 33 ′ 9 ″  O
Location: Western Australia , Australia
Specialty: Eucalyptus forest, freshwater and salt swamps, narrow-gauge railway
Next city: 60 kilometer (s) from Coolgardie
Surface: 690 km²
Founding: 1977
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The Goldfields Woodlands National Park (English Goldfields Woodlands National Park ) is a 690 km² national park in the west of Western Australia , Australia .

location

Between Coolgardie and Southern Cross , the park stretches for 40 km on either side of the Great Eastern Highway . In the west it borders directly on the Boorabbin National Park . Both parks together with other protected areas in this area such as the Victoria Rock Nature Reserve have an area of ​​1520 km². In the next few years (as of 2010) the nature reserve is to be doubled again to 3,110 km².

Flora and fauna

A variety of different landforms are located in the park, including sand plains, freshwater marshes , salt flats with a surrounding area of Log ( saltbush ) and samphire ( samphire ), Eukalyptenwälder and granite formations . In the open forest areas one finds among other things "Salmon Gums" ( Eucalyptus salmonophloia ) and "Gimlet Gums" ( Eucalyptus salubris ). 17 mammals , 4 frogs , 52 reptiles and over 100 bird species were counted in the park , including ningauis , bilchbeutler , narrow-footed bag mice and various bat species .

history

In the park are the remains of the historic narrow-gauge railways Kalgoorlie woodlines , on which wood was transported both for mine construction and as fuel for industry. These were built after the Gold Rush in Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie-Boulder in 1892 and were in operation until the 1960s. The wood was also used as fuel for the operation of pumping stations that carried water in a pipeline from Mundaring to the gold rush towns. Various relics of this can also be found in the park.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Management Plan 1994-2004 - Goldfields Region. (PDF, 817 kB) DEC , p. 59 , accessed on January 19, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
  3. ↑ a b c Official website of the park. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .