Mount Frankland National Park

Mount Frankland National Park
Mount Frankland National Park
Coordinates: 34 ° 45 ′ 59 ″  S , 116 ° 44 ′ 34 ″  O
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Specialty:	Eucalyptus forests
Next city:	65 km from Manjimup
Surface:	374 km²
Founding:	1988

The Mount Frankland National Park is a 374 km² national park in the southwest of Western Australia , Australia . It is part of the Walpole Wilderness Area .

location

The park is located about 330 km south of Perth on the South Western Highway . The nearest towns are Manjimup , 65 km northwest, and Walpole , 20 km south of the park. After the nearby D'Entrecasteaux and Shannon national parks , it is the largest protected area in the area.

history

While exploring the area north and west of Albany in 1829, Dr. Thomas Braidwood Wilson on Mount Lindesay . From there he mapped the surrounding elevations, including Mount Frankland, named after Georg Frankland , the then Surveyor-General of Tasmania . The area around this granite ridge , also called Caldyanup by the Aborigines , was declared a national park on December 23, 1988.

To the area of ​​308 km² at that time, 2.6 km² was added in 2004 and a further 62.7 km² in 2005, so that the area of ​​the park is 373.59 km² today.

Flora and fauna

Part of Mount Frankland National Park consists of "Jarrah" ( Eucalyptus marginata ), Karri ( Eucalyptus diversicolor ) and "Red Tingle" forests ( Eucalyptus jacksonii ). There you will find more than 50 bird - species , including eagles -, snap types, and a colorful season tail -type ( Malurus ). In the other part of the national park a treeless heathland predominates .

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)
• Walpole Wilderness - Management Plan 2008 (English, pdf)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
2. ^ Gwendoline Wilson: Wilson, Thomas Braidwood . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
3. ^ PR Eldershaw: Frankland, Georg . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Official website of the park. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 16, 2016 . 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. ↑ Walpole Wildness - Management Plan 2008. (PDF) DEC , 2008, p. 6 , accessed on January 16, 2016 (English).