Mount Archer National Park

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Mount Archer National Park
Lights eucalyptus forest on Mount Archer
Lights eucalyptus forest on Mount Archer
Mount Archer National Park, Queensland
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Coordinates: 23 ° 19 ′ 31 ″  S , 150 ° 34 ′ 55 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Light eucalyptus forest, dry rainforest
Next city: Rockhampton
Surface: 42.5 km²
Founding: 1994
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The Mount Archer National Park (English: Mount Archer National Park ) is a national park in the east of the Australian state of Queensland . It is 522 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and directly northeast adjoining the urban area of Rockhampton . This is where the Queensland tropics begin .

National nature

The national park is located in the Berserker Ranges , the highest peak of which is Mount Archer with a height of 604 meters. The Moores Creek has dug deep into the mountains.

The national parks of Mount Etna Caves , Mount Jim Crow , Capricorn Coast and Rundle Range are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

The vegetation in the park consists mainly of light eucalyptus forest with occasional sprinkling of dry rainforest .

The forest thickhead ( Colluricincla megarhyncha ), the white- browed sericornis ( Sericornis frontalis ), the giant owl ( Ninox strictua ) and the brown-headed cockatoo are among the bird species that can be found in the park.

Facilities

Camping is not permitted in the park. A road leads to the top of Mount Archer where you can climb. There are several landscaped hiking trails and picnic areas in the park.

The national park is directly accessible from the Rockhampton road network.

Web links

Commons : Mount Archer National Park  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

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. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 11
  4. ↑ a b c d Mount Archer National Park . Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved November 28, 2012
  5. ↑ Mount Archer National Park: Nature, culture and history . Department of Environment and Resource Management. April 29, 2010. Retrieved March 21, 2011.