Kinglake National Park

Kinglake National Park
Masons Falls in Kinglake National Park
Coordinates: 37 ° 24 ′ 23 ″  S , 145 ° 12 ′ 39 ″  E
Location:	Victoria , Australia
Specialty:	Eucalyptus forest
Next city:	Kinglake
Surface:	216 km²
Founding:	1928
Grass trees on a hiking trail to Masons Falls

The Kinglake National Park is a national park in the southern Australian state of Victoria , 50 km north-east of Melbourne .

geology

The creek valleys of Steels Creek and Diamond Creek , both tributaries of the Yarra River , consist of stratified sediment that contains fossils from when the area was still an ocean floor.

fauna

You can find wallabies , kangaroos , wombats , possums and echins in the park . In addition, there are many species of birds, e.g. B. cockatoos, as the black and Rotkopf- Gelbhaubenkakadu , the King Parrot , the flat tail parakeet and the lyre tail .

flora

Before Black Saturday , the tallest tree in Victoria was in Kinglake National Park. The eucalyptus of the species Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) was 91.6 m high (measurement 2002) and is said to have grown since the forest fire of Black Thursday 1851. He stood in the closed catchment area of Wallaby Creek in the northwest part of the park.

Facilities

There are many hiking trails in the park, some of which can also be used with wheelchairs, as well as tent sites. At the Masons Falls picnic area , you can see waterfalls and pristine flora.

history

The area was cleared at the beginning of the 20th century, traces of which can still be seen today in the form of notches in trees and a sawdust bunker.

In January 2006, parts of the park north of the Kinglake settlement were destroyed by a forest fire caused by lightning strikes during a severe thunderstorm. The fire enclosed the city and raged within a few hundred meters of the northern city limits. More thunderstorms and the use of volunteer firefighters eventually saved the city.

In the 2009 bushfires, 98% of the park was badly damaged. Most of the city of Kinglake was destroyed and nearly 100 people died. In 2010, the reconstruction work continued and the park will be reopened bit by bit.

Web links

Commons : Kinglake National Park  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Kinglake National Park . Parks Victoria

Individual evidence

1. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd. Archerfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978174193232-4 . P. 43
2. ↑ Victoria's Tallest Tree . Forestry.org ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.7 MB) 
3. ↑ Kinglake National Park . Parks Victoria ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.