Greater Bendigo National Park

Greater Bendigo National Park
Coordinates: 36 ° 40 ′ 26 ″  S , 144 ° 15 ′ 17 ″  E
Location:	Victoria , Australia
Specialty:	Eucalyptus forest, Mallee
Next city:	Bendigo
Surface:	170.07 km²
Founding:	February 2009

The Greater Bendigo National Park is a national park in the center of the Australian state of Victoria , 130 km northwest of Melbourne around the city of Bendigo . The 170 km² park consists of two parts, the larger of which in the north of the city, north of Eaglehawk , and the much smaller immediately south of Bendigo.

vegetation

The park was created in 2009 from Whipstick State Park , Kamarooka State Park , One Tree Hill Regional Park , Mandurang State Forest, and Sandhurst State Forest . The park essentially consists of dense and loose eucalyptus forest . The predominant types of eucalyptus are the box ironbark , the broombush mallee, and the kamarooka mallee . The park is particularly known for its colorful wild flowers in spring.

history

Originally, the land around today's city of Bendigo was inhabited by the Aboriginal tribe of the Dja Dja Wurrung for thousands of years . Today, their descendants take care of the heritage of their ancestors through the Dja Dja Wrung Aboriginal Association, Inc.

In the 1830s and 1840s, sheep farmers of European descent first settled in the area. In the 1850s, the gold rush began and the gold diggers dug up the land bit by bit. Many traces of these gold seekers can still be found in the park today, for example tunnels, dams and old diversion routes for streams.

Later, the eucalyptus oil industry, along with the production of charcoal, became the most important economic sector in this country, especially in the northern part of what is now the national park around Kamarooka . To date, 83 percent of the box ironbark forest typical of this region has been lost through logging .

Web links

• Greater Bendigo National Park . Parks Victoria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} As Mallee are called in Australia eucalyptus species that grow bushy with many thin stems.
2. ^ ^{A b} Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd. Archerfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978174193232-4 . P. 45
3. ↑ ^{a b} Greater Bendigo National Park . Parks Victoria ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.