Lockyer National Park

Lockyer National Park
Monk's caterpillar ( Coracina tenuirostris )
Coordinates: 27 ° 26 ′ 22.6 ″  S , 152 ° 14 ′ 35.3 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Next city:	25 kilometer (s) from Toowoomba
Surface:	26.77 km²
Founding:	2008

The Lockyer National Park (English Lockyer National Park ) is a 26.8 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . Another 78 square kilometers are designated as a National Park (Recovery).

location

It is located in the Darling Downs region about 90 kilometers west of Brisbane and 250 kilometers south of Hervey Bay . The nearest town is Toowoomba , from here you can reach the park via the Warrego Highway eastwards. After about 25 kilometers, between the two places Helidon and Gatton , the individual areas of the park are in the northern elevations of the Lockyer Valley.

The national parks Geham , Hampton , Ravensbourne , Gatton and Crows-Nest are in the vicinity .

history

The park is named after Edmund Lockyer , who led an expedition along the Brisbane River in 1825 and passed the Lockyer Valley , on the slopes of which the national park is located.

landscape

The largely undeveloped national park protects remote sandstone gorges that are surrounded by eucalyptus forests that are up to 450 meters high and almost untouched by humans . There are no visitor facilities in the park, but you are allowed to drive on some paths for which a four-wheel drive vehicle is recommended.

fauna

About 80 different species of birds are native to the park, including the glossy black cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus lathami ), the powerful owl ( Ninox strenua ), the Black-breasted Laufhühnchen ( Turnix melanogaster ) or the monk tracked catcher ( Coracina tenuirostris ). The endangered brush-tailed rock kangaroo ( Petrogale penicillata ) can also be found in the park.

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official Park Website - About , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012
3. ↑ Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012.