Mount Cook National Park (Queensland)

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Mount Cook National Park
Mount Cook National Park (Queensland) (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 15 ° 29 ′ 29.1 ″  S , 145 ° 15 ′ 30.6 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Rainforest
Next city: 2 mile (s) from Cooktown
Surface: 5.02 km²
Founding: 1970
New Guinea Amethyst Python (Morelia amethistina)
New Guinea Amethyst Python ( Morelia amethistina )
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The Mount Cook National Park (English Mount Cook National Park ) is an approximately 5 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia .

location

The park is located in the Far North Queensland region . It is located about 180 kilometers north of Cairns and 3 kilometers south of Cooktown . Located between the Mulligan Highway and the coast to the Coral Sea , the national park protects the area around the 431 meter high Mount Cook . Apart from the 6 kilometer hiking trail to the top, there are no visitor facilities or roads into the park.

history

Lieutenant Phillip Parker King named Mount Cook in June 1819 during his circumnavigation of northern Australia. Not knowing that Lieutenant James Cook had already named the mountain Gores Mount in 1770 , after John Gore , his third lieutenant. The name Gores Mount has been forgotten over time.

Flora and fauna

Rainforest and tropical forest with a heather substructure dominate both on the higher slopes and along the streams and rivers. Grasslands grow on the southern slopes.

The different habitats are home to a multitude of different plants and animals, including the New Guinea amethyst python ( Morelia amethistina ) and the northern marten ( Dasyurus hallucatus ), which is classified as endangered . In the summer months you can see two-colored fruit pigeons ( Ducula bicolour ) and Paradieslieste ( Tanysiptera sylvia ), a species of kingfisher .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Official Park Website - About , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012
  3. ↑ Official website of the park - Culture ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nprsr.qld.gov.au