Goongarrie National Park

Goongarrie National Park
Coordinates: 30 ° 0 ′ 8 ″  S , 121 ° 31 ′ 51 ″  E
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Specialty:	Bushland
Next city:	100 kilometer (s) from Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Surface:	604 km²
Founding:	1978

The Goongarrie National Park (English Goongarrie National Park ) is a 604 km² national park in the Goldfields region in Western Australia , Australia . The predominant landscape is Mallee and Mulga scrub .

location

From the Goldfields Highway between Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Leonora , about 20 km south of Menzies, a dirt road branches off to the east. On this one passes the border of the national park after 35 km. Apart from this piste, which continues through the entire park, there are no visitor facilities.

history

The area of ​​today's national park was first explored by gold prospectors in 1893 . Two years later, the city of Goongarrie was officially founded, named after a nearby lake. The original meaning of this term is unclear.

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)
• Management Plan 1994–2004 - Goldfields Region (English, pdf; 798 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
2. ↑ Management Plan 1994-2004 - Goldfields Region. (pdf; 817 kB) (No longer available online.) DEC , p. 27 , archived from the original on March 12, 2011 ; accessed on January 14, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ And All So Far From Home .... - Goongarrie - Western Australia. Retrieved January 14, 2010 (English).