Howick Group National Park

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Howick Group National Park
Howick Group National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 14 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 58 ′ 10 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Rock islands, tropical rainforest
Next city: Cooktown
Surface: 7.76 km²
Founding: 1989
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The Howick Group National Park (English: Howick Group National Park ) is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is 1,689 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 90 kilometers north of Cooktown . The islands are east of the Jack River and Cape Melville National Parks on the continental shelf in the Coral Sea .

A little further south are the national parks Turtle Group and Lizard Island .

Terrain forms

There are four larger islands, the main island Howick Island (Lizard Island) , as well as Berwick Island, Houghton Island and Murdoch Island . There are several smaller islands around these islands. The islands are partly rocky and overgrown with tropical rainforest .

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 Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 15