Lawley River National Park

Lawley National Park
Coordinates: 14 ° 40 ′ 48 ″  S , 125 ° 53 ′ 24 ″  E
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Specialty:	impassable, difficult to access area
Surface:	175.72 km²
Founding:	2000

The Lawley National Park (English: Lawley National Park ) is located east of the Mitchell River National Park in the deserted and poorly developed Kimberley region in northern Western Australia on the coast of the Indian Ocean .

The 175.72 km² national park can only be reached on foot. It can only be entered with the permission of the Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation and the Department of Parks and Wildlife . Access is usually from the aircraft runway located on the Mitchell Plateau . Visitors should have bush experiences because they have to take care of themselves. There are no paths or structures in the wilderness in the park.

The area was declared a national park in 2000.

After Rio Tinto and Alcoa returned their mountain rights over an area of ​​17,500 km² in the Kimberley region in 2015, political considerations arose to merge the three national parks Prince Regent National Park , Mitchell River National Park and Lawley River National Park amalgamating the great Kimberley National Park, the largest national park in Australia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Department of Parks and Wildlife 2013-14 Annual Report (PDF), p. 31, on parliament.wa.gov.au. Retrieved August 28, 2017
2. ↑ Brad Elborough: What you need to see when exploring WA's Kimberley , June 2, 2015, on Perthnow. Retrieved August 18, 2017
3. ↑ Australian Government - CapAd 2014 - WA summary . Terrestrial Protected Areas in Western Australia (2014). DSEWPaC , accessed on August 20, 2017 (English; MS Excel ; 53 kB)
4. ↑ Andrew O'Connor: Australia's biggest national park to be created in WA's Kimberley as mining companies relinquish tenement , May 25, 2015, on abc.net.au. Retrieved August 18, 2017