Gull Rock National Park

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Gull Rock National Park
Sea coast in the national park
Sea coast in the national park
Gull Rock National Park (Western Australia)
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Coordinates: 35 ° 0 ′ 27 ″  S , 118 ° 0 ′ 12 ″  E
Location: Western Australia , Australia
Specialty: Banksien and casuarina forests, granite caps, sandy beaches, wetlands
Next city: Albany
Surface: 25.93 km²
Founding: 2006
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The Gull Rock National Park is a national park in the southern Australian state of Western Australia , 25 km east of Albany . It was opened in 2006 as Western Australias 97th National Park and covers an area of ​​2593 hectares. The area is north of King George Sound , east of Oyster Harbor and west of Taylor Inlet .

The area is an example of almost untouched coastal vegetation east of the Kalgan River . The country consists of granite foothills interrupted by sandy beaches, lakes and wetlands between dunes, and thus contains a number of special ecosystems. There are granite rocks z. B. Mount Taylor and Mount Martin, both of which are part of the Gardner Land Formation . Endangered bird species live in the park, such as the noise thicket bird ( Atrichornis clamosus ), the long-billed lacquer bird ( Dasyornis longirostris ) and the gray-headed rocking flute ( Psophodes nigrogularis ). As part of a targeted search on the south coast of Western Australia in 2008, specimens of the spider species Austrarchaea mainae , which belongs to the family of Archaeidae and which is classified as endangered in Western Australia, were found in Gull Rock National Park .

In the park you can find banksia and casuarina forests , open heathland and grassy dunes. Of the plant species that occur, Banksia coccinea , Hakea elliptica , Allocasuarina trichodon , Agonis marginata and Dryandra formosa are particularly noteworthy .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albany Gets WA's Newest National Park . Department of Environment and Conservation. Government of Western Australia (July 5, 2006) ( September 12, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Gull Rock National Park and Adjacent Areas, Gull Rock Rd., Albany WA - Place Details . Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities , Government of Western Australia
  3. ↑ Exciting Find of Rare Assassin Spiders on WA South Coast (PDF; 81 kB) ( Memento from February 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 7, 2011