Mount Lewis National Park

Mount Lewis National Park
Australian waterfall frog ( Litoria nannotis )
Coordinates: 16 ° 32 ′ 54 ″  S , 145 ° 17 ′ 5 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Tropical rain forest
Next city:	15 kilometer (s) from Mossman
Surface:	275.4 km²
Founding:	2009

The Mount Lewis National Park (English Mount Lewis National Park ) is an approximately 275.4 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . Since 1988 it has been listed as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site Wet Tropics of Queensland because of its natural beauty, biodiversity , evolutionary history and as a habitat for numerous endangered animal species .

location

The park is located in the Far North Queensland region , about 66 kilometers northwest of Cairns and 15 kilometers west of Mossman . In the west it borders directly on the Daintree and Mount Spurgeon National Park , in the north on the Mount Windsor National Park . The only access to the park is via Mount Lewis Road , which branches off to the west about 4 km north of Julatten . The 28-kilometer road, which is only suitable for all-wheel drive vehicles, is closed during the rainy season .

economy

More than 100 years ago, tin and tungsten began to be mined on Mount Lewis . In the 1940s the Mount Lewis Road was laid out to cut down the coveted red cedars ( Toona ciliata ) and Kauri trees . Over the course of time, the road was expanded further, and it was not until 1978 that the timber industry was discontinued in the higher elevations, with the designation of the World Heritage Site in 1988 also in the lower elevations.

Flora and fauna

The area between Mount Lewis and the Atherton Tablelands has a particularly high biodiversity due to the diverse habitats . Tropical rainforest and, in the higher elevations from around 900 meters, cloud forest offer a refuge for birds, snakes, possums and some particularly endangered frog species such as the Australian waterfall frog ( Litoria nannotis ) or the common fog frog ( Litoria rheocola ).

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
2. ^ Wet Tropics parks , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012
3. ↑ Official Park Website - About , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012
4. ↑ ^{a b} Official website of the park - Culture , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012 (English)