Good Night Scrub National Park

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Good Night Scrub National Park
Spiegeliest (Todiramphus macleayii)
Spiegeliest ( Todiramphus macleayii )
Good Night Scrub National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 25 ° 13 ′ 19 ″  S , 151 ° 55 ′ 12 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Dry rainforest
Next city: Booyal
Surface: 66.8 km²
Founding: 2005
Yellow-naped Bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus)
Yellow-naped Bowerbird ( Sericulus chrysocephalus )
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The Good Night Scrub National Park (English: Good Night Scrub National Park ) is a national park in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is located 274 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 60 kilometers southwest of Bundaberg in the Burnett River valley .

The national parks Cordalba , Woowoonga , Coalstoun Lakes , Nour Nour and Bania are in the vicinity .

Origin of name

The undergrowth in the park - as they say in the area - is so dense that you can hardly ride or walk through it. If cattle got lost in this undergrowth, they were mostly lost for the farmer ( You can kiss your cattle good night! ). Hence the area was named 'Good Night Scrub'.

National nature

The land on the lower reaches of the Burnett River is gently rolling and forested.

Part of the park could be flooded if the planned Paradise reservoir on the Burnett River is realized.

Flora and fauna

The national park protects the remaining dry rainforest in the area, which used to spread across the entire area. The most important tree species there is the New Guinea araucaria . Occasionally you will also find bottle trees and moa wood . In addition to the rainforest, there is also light eucalyptus forest with the species "Spotted Gum" ( Corymbia maculata ), "Forest Red Gum" ( Eucalyptus tereticornis ) and the narrow-leaved "Red Ironbark" ( Eucalyptus crebra ).

The bird life in the national park comprises 166 species, including the giant owl ( Ninox strictua ), the yellow- naped bower bird ( Sericulus chrysocephalus ), the mirrored bird ( Todiramphus macleayii ) and the king parakeet ( Alisterus scapularis ). In Goodnight Scrub was also actually the extinct classified paradise parrot ( Psephotus pulcherrimus spotted). Swans , spoonbills and other water birds can be found directly on the river . There are different types of wallabies as well as 60 different types of butterflies.

Facilities and access

There are no paths or other facilities in the park. Camping is not permitted.

The national park can be reached from the Bruce Highway ( Booyal exit ). The driveway leads along the Burnett River dam to the southwest and then onto the cul-de-sac to the national park. In dry weather, the road can be used with road vehicles, in wet weather it can even be impassable for all-wheel drive vehicles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 9
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Good Night Scrub National Park . Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved November 15, 2012