Maria Creek National Park

Maria Creek National Park
Coordinates: 17 ° 46 ′ 50 ″  S , 146 ° 4 ′ 7 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Coastal rainforest, birds
Next city:	Kurrimine Beach
Surface:	7.49 km²
Founding:	1972

The Maria Creek National Park (English: Maria Creek National Park ) is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

location

It is 1,292 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 30 kilometers south of Innisfail .

The national parks of Kurrimine Beach , Barnard Island Group and Clump Mountain are in the vicinity .

National nature

The small national park in the coastal plain between agricultural land is criss-crossed by Maria Creek in meanders . The stream flows into the coral sea south of Kurrimine Beach in an estuary . About 60 percent of the park is marshland.

Flora and fauna

The national park is overgrown with tropical rainforest.

It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area , which was designated by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of the birds of the tropical coastal rainforest .

Facilities and access

Camping in the park is not permitted and there are no landscaped paths. There is a nearby camping facility at Kurrimine Beach Holiday Park .

The park is accessible from the Bruce Highway ( Kurrimine exit ). From there, turn east on Murdering Point Road and after 10 kilometers you will reach Kurrimine Beach . The national park is located at the southwest end of the settlement.

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. ^ ^{A b} Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 14
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Maria Creek National Park . Wild Downunder ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Important Bird Areas factsheet - Coastal Wet Tropics . BirdLife International. Retrieved December 16, 2011