Mount Hypipamee National Park

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Mount Hypipamee National Park
The water-filled crater of Mount Hypipamee. The green color is caused by the duckweed family.
The water-filled crater of Mount Hypipamee. The green color is caused by the duckweed family .
Mount Hypipamee National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 17 ° 25 ′ 30 ″  S , 145 ° 29 ′ 10 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Maar
Next city: Malanda
Surface: 3.64 km²
Founding: 1939
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The Mount Hypipamee National Park is located in Queensland , Australia , 25 kilometers south of Atherton , 15 kilometers from Malanda and 115 kilometers from Cairns removed. This National Park is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland , to the list of since 1988 UNESCO - World Heritage listed.

Aboriginal

The Aborigines of the Ngadjonji and Jirrbal lived in the area of ​​Mount Hypipamee National Park . In the ideas of the dream time of the Ngadjonji, which the painter Warren Canendo expressed in a picture, the rainbow serpent created the four maars Lake Eacham , Lake Barrine , Lake Euramoo and the crater lake of Mount Hypipamee (Naypa Naypami) , which are located close together . In their ideas, the lakes should be connected underground, which was not confirmed after diving.

Geology and geography

In the center of the national park there is an 82-meter-deep crater that was created by a gas explosion. When the explosion occurred, they smashed consisting of granite existing rock layer and hurled through the air rock fragments, while only small parts of volcanic material leaked to the surface. Today the crater is filled with a rainwater-fed lake about 70 meters in diameter.

The summit of Mount Hypipamee is at a height of just over 1,000 m above sea level.

Flora and fauna

The national park is home to two different types of vegetation. In the higher areas around the parking lot and on the hiking trail to the crater it is humid and cool: Rainforest plants grow there. In contrast, the vegetation on the reddish soils of weathered basalt alternates between rainforest and dry, open forest.

Fuchskusu ( Trichosurus vulpecular ), lemur ringbucks ( Hemibelideus lemuroids ), Dactylopsila trivirgata , short-headed gliding pouches ( Petaurus breviceps ), giant gliding pouches ( Petauroides volans ) and feather-tailed gliding pouches ( Acrobates speutler ) have been observed in the Mount Hypipamee National Park . occasionally the Lumholtz tree kangaroo ( Dendrolagus lumholtzi ).

From the Avifauna are worth mentioning the bush chicken ( Alectura lathami ), gold ear Honigfresser ( Meliphaga Lewinii ) Lichenostomus frenatus , Victoria bird of paradise ( Ptiloris victoriae ), columns gardener ( Amblyornis newtonianus ) Ailuroedus melanotis and tooth Laubenvogel ( Scenopoeetes dentirostris ).

tourism

A 400 m long hiking trail leads from the parking lot to the crater lake. It ends at a platform that allows a view of the crater lake. An alternative way back is via Dinner Falls , a series of cascades in the Barron River . Camping is not allowed in the park.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
  2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
  3. ↑ ngadjonji.bigpondhosting.com : Lands of the Ngadjonji , in English, accessed January 19, 2012
  4. ↑ ngadjonji.bigpondhosting.com : Yamani and the Lakes , in English, accessed January 19, 2012
  5. ↑ a b Official Park Website - Culture , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed January 7, 2013