Hull River National Park

Hull River National Park
Coordinates: 17 ° 57 ′ 22 ″  S , 146 ° 4 ′ 11 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Mangrove and swamp forests
Next city:	Tully
Surface:	36.95 km²
Founding:	1968

The Hull River National Park (English: Hull River National Park ) is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of Queensland . In the national park, the estuary of the Hull River is protected.

location

It is located 1,275 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 10 kilometers southeast of Tully .

The national parks Djiru , Mount Mackay , Family Islands and Goold Island are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

About two thirds of the national park area consists of mangrove forests in the estuary of the Hull River, while one third consists of swamp forests, in which myrtle heather and moisture-loving eucalyptus trees predominate.

The park is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area , which has been designated as such by BirdLife International because it is important for the conservation of the birds of the tropical coastal rainforest.

In the park area, the average annual rainfall is 3,600 millimeters.

Culture

The earlier Aboriginal mission Hull River Aboriginal Settlement was in the area of ​​today's national park.

Web links

• Rainforest Photo Catalog . Dave Kimble (More than 2,400 photos from the wetlands around the Hull River. Most of them are rainforest plants, mushrooms, cassowaries and other birds, insects, spiders and various ecosystems)

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. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 13
4. ↑ Important Bird Areas factsheet - Coastal Wet Tropics . BirdLife International. (2011). Retrieved December 16, 2011