Hell Hole Gorge National Park

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Hell Hole Gorge National Park
Hell Hole Gorge National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 25 ° 32 ′ 15 ″  S , 144 ° 9 ′ 17 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Sandstone canyon
Next city: Quilpie
Surface: 127 km²
Founding: 1992
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The Hell Hole Gorge National Park (English: Hell Hole Gorge National Park ) is a national park in the southwest of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is 912 kilometers west of Brisbane and 110 kilometers north of Quilpie .

The poorly accessible park in the Channel Country is located at the northwest foot of the Gray Range on Powell Creek , a left tributary of the Barcoo River . The traversed by him sandstone gorge Hell Hole Gorge (dt .: hellhole Gorge ) is the main attraction of the park.

The national parks Mariala , Idalia and Welford are in the vicinity .

Driveway

An unpaved road from Thylungra Station on Diamantina Developmental Road to Welford Lagoon on the also unpaved road to Blackall leads past Trinidad Station 20 kilometers west of the park, but access by car is not possible. There are neither paths nor roads in the park.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
  2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
  3. ^ A b c Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 19
  4. ^ A b Parks of Central West Queensland . Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved November 15, 2012