Jardine River National Park

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Jardine River National Park
Jardine River National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 10 ° 55 ′ 16 ″  S , 142 ° 37 ′ 36 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Cape York Peninsula
Next city: 200 km from Weipa
Surface: 2370 km²
Founding: 1977
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The Jardine River National Park is a 2,370 square kilometer National Park in the far north of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland , Australia .

location

The park is located about 900 kilometers north of Cairns and 200 kilometers northeast of Weipa . It can be reached by four-wheel drive vehicles via the Peninsula Developmental Road and Telegraph Road . Telegraph Road also forms the western limit of the park. 10 kilometers after crossing the Jardine River , a track branches off into the eastern part of the national park. The park is bordered by the Heathlands Resources Reserve to the south and the Jardine River Resources Reserves to the north , together they form a nearly 4,000 square kilometer protected area, which is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service in collaboration with Aborigines .

The Denham Group and Saunders Islands national parks are off the coast .

history

The Cape York Peninsula has been home to Aboriginal people for thousands of years. The Atambaya , Angkamuthi , Yadhaykenu , Gudang and Wuthathi groups live in the area of ​​the national park . In 1770, James Cook became the first European to reach the Cape York Peninsula by ship. Almost 80 years later, Edmund Kennedy explored the area for the first time by land in 1848, but was killed on the Escape River in the north of the park. The Jardine brothers follow in 1865, followed by the geologist Robert Logan Jack in 1880 , who met a group of Aborigines at Captain Billy Landing .

Web links

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. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
  4. ↑ a b Official website of the Jardine River National Park ( English ). Retrieved January 16, 2016.