Moore River National Park

Moore River National Park
Coordinates: 31 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 115 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E.
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Specialty:	Heathland with banks
Next city:	100 km from Perth
Surface:	175 km²
Founding:	1969

The Moore River National Park (English Moore River National Park ) is a 175 km² national park in Western Australia , Australia . It is located 100 km north of Perth and 30 km northeast of Gingin along the Brand Highway .

This park protects an untouched heathland with bank vegetation . There are no visitor facilities in the national park. Camping is not allowed.

The name of the national park comes from the Moore River , in whose catchment area the park lies and which was named after George Fletcher Moore, a prominent European settler in Western Australia and explorer of the region.

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
2. ↑ Otmar Lind, Andrea Hiehues: Australia - The most beautiful national parks . Edgar Hoff Verlag, Rappweiler 1995, ISBN 3-923716-12-5 , p. 347 .