Kinrara National Park

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Kinrara National Park
Kinrara National Park, Queensland
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Coordinates: 18 ° 26 ′ 53.1 ″  S , 144 ° 57 ′ 53 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Volcanic landscape
Next city: 130 kilometer (s) from Ingham
Surface: 75.8 km²
Founding: 2003
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The Kinrara National Park (English Kinrara National Park ) is a 75 square kilometer national park in the Australian state of Queensland .

location

The park is located 150 kilometers southwest of Innisfail and 230 kilometers northwest of Charters Towers at the height of Hinchinbrook Island and about 150 kilometers from the coast. There are no access roads or visitor facilities.

National nature

Like the better known Undara Volcanic National Park , Kinrara National Park is located in the McBride Volcanic Province . Its geological formations date back to volcanic activity 7.8 million to 2.7 million years ago. The more than 700 meter high Kinrara volcano in the northern part of the park is the youngest in McBride Province, it goes back to an eruption 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. The crater is up to 60 meters deep, has a diameter of 400 meters and is made of basenite .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ Protected areas of the Burdekin NRM region  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / pan.search.qld.gov.au  
  3. ↑ 18 ° S 145 ° E Rudd Creek - Queensland by Degrees ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2016 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. , Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, accessed October 7, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rgsq.org.au
  4. ↑ McBride Volcano - John Seach , volcanolive.com, accessed October 7, 2012 (English)
  5. ↑ a b Oregon State - Kinrara, Queensland, Australia , volcano.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 7, 2012 (English)