Little Mulgrave National Park

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Little Mulgrave National Park
Common Mistfrog (Litoria rheocola)
Common Mistfrog ( Litoria rheocola )
Little Mulgrave National Park, Queensland
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Coordinates: 17 ° 9 ′ 21 ″  S , 145 ° 42 ′ 3.2 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: tropical rainforest
Next city: 3 mile (s) from Gordonvale
Surface: 109 km²
Founding: 2011
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The Little Mulgrave National Park (English Little Mulgrave National Park ) is a 109 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . It is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland UNESCO World Heritage Site . It is named after the Mulgrave River and its tributary the Little Mulgrave River on whose north bank the park is located.

location

The park is located in the North Queensland region about 260 kilometers north of Townsville and 22 kilometers south of Cairns . The closest town is Gordonvale , from here the park can be reached via the Gillies Highway towards Atherton . Immediately after the village, the highway runs for 8 kilometers along the southern park boundary. After the small town of Little Mulgrave , the highway runs for about 5 kilometers through the national park. There are no visitor facilities there.

The national parks of Dinden , Wooroonooran , Gadgarra , Gray Peaks and Danbulla are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

The park protects primary tropical rainforests that thrive along the eastern edge of the Atherton Tablelands plateau . It ranges from 50 meters above sea level, near the town of Little Mulgrave in the coastal lowlands, to over 1000 meters at the foot of Mount Haig . The tropical vegetation is home to a large number of animals, over 52 different bird species have been observed, including the endangered Queensland alangans ( Aerodramus terraereginae ), the diademed masked parrots ( Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana ) and cassowaries ( Casuarius casuarius johnsonii ).

The area is even more important for numerous amphibians , such as the endangered Australian lace-lid ( Nyctimystes dayi ), the tapping green eyed frog ( Litoria serrata ), the waterfall frog ( Litoria nannotis ), the common mist frog ( Litoria rheocola ) and the Sharp Snouted Day Frog ( Taudactylus acutirostris ) which is already considered extinct in some places.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ a b Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012