Mapleton Falls National Park

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Mapleton Falls National Park
Long-tailed fruit pigeon
Long-tailed fruit pigeon
Mapleton Falls National Park, Queensland
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Coordinates: 26 ° 37 ′ 50 ″  S , 152 ° 50 ′ 20 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Waterfall, basalt columns, rainforest
Next city: Mapleton
Surface: 25.9 ha
Founding: 1973
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The Mapleton Falls National Park (English: Mapleton Falls National Park ) is a national park in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is 95 kilometers north of Brisbane and ten kilometers west of Nambour in the Blackall Range .

The park is accessible from Brisbane on the Bruce Highway (exit Nambour). There you turn west onto the road to Mapleton , which is reached after eleven kilometers. On Obi Obi Road , you will reach the park after another three kilometers.

A little to the north is the Mapleton National Park , founded in 2011 , which is many times larger at almost 65 square kilometers, and two kilometers to the south is the Kondalilla National Park .

history

The waterfall Mapleton If in 1938 the Forest Reserve explained. In 1973 the area was rededicated as a national park.

National nature

On the west side of the Blackall Range , the water of Pencil Creek plunges 120 meters above Mapleton Falls . The waterfall's pool is surrounded by basalt columns that testify to volcanic activity in the area 25 million years ago.

Flora and fauna

In the small national park there is subtropical alluvial rainforest and light eucalyptus forest .

Long-tailed fruit pigeons (Engl. Wompoo Fruit Doves ) and in summer also frogs inhabit stream and forest.

Facilities

Camping in the park is not permitted. The Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk , a 58-kilometer long distance hiking trail, runs through the park. There are also two shorter, landscaped hiking trails, the Mapleton Falls Lookout Walk (50 meters) and the Wompoo Circuit Walk (1.3 kilometers).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
  2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
  3. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 5
  4. ↑ a b c d e Mapleton Falls National Park . Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved November 23, 2012
  5. ^ Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland): Heritage Trails of the Great South East . State of Queensland, 2000, ISBN 0-7345-1008-X , p. 134 ( Accessed August 19, 2012).