Moresby Range National Park

Moresby Range National Park
Coordinates: 17 ° 32 ′ 15 ″  S , 146 ° 4 ′ 33 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Coastal rainforest
Next city:	Innisfail
Surface:	6.16 km²
Founding:	1973

The Moresby Range National Park (English: Moresby Range National Park ) is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of Queensland . It is located 1314 km northwest of Brisbane and about 5 km southeast of Innisfail .

Flora and fauna

The area on the small, flat Moresby Range is covered with tropical coastal rainforest.

There you can find a large number of different animals, e.g. B. also endangered species, such as the cassowary ,

The park is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area . BirdLife International gave the park this classification because it is an important habitat for the birds of the tropical rainforest in the lowlands.

Driveway

The national park can be reached from Innisfail via a small cul-de-sac to the east or from Etty Bay .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
3. ^ ^{A b} Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 14
4. ↑ Tracking cassowaries in Moresby Range National Park using GPS based telemetry . University of Queensland DataSpace (beta). Retrieved on November 27, 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been 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 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2011