Mount Spurgeon National Park

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Mount Spurgeon National Park
Peeping Whistlefrog (Austrochaperina fryi)
Peeping Whistlefrog ( Austrochaperina fryi )
Mount Spurgeon National Park, Queensland
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Coordinates: 16 ° 26 ′ 56.6 ″  S , 145 ° 12 ′ 16.6 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: tropical rainforest
Next city: 11.00 mile (s) from Mossman
Surface: 11.94 km²
Founding: 2008
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The Mount Spurgeon National Park (English Mount Spurgeon National Park ) is a 11.9 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . It is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland UNESCO World Heritage Site .

location

The park is located in the Far North Queensland region about 80 kilometers northwest of Cairns and 18 kilometers west of Mossman . It borders directly on Mount Lewis and the Daintree National Park . There are no visitor facilities.

Flora and fauna

The park protects primary , tropical rainforest around the 1322 meter high Mount Spurgeon . This species-rich habitat is home to a wide variety of amphibians , including the critically endangered tree frogs such as the Common Mistfrog ( Litoria rheocola ), the Tapping Green Eyed Frog ( Litoria serrata ), the Australian Lace-lid ( Nyctimystes dayi ) and the Waterfall Frog ( Litoria nannotis) ); from the family of the Australian southern frogs the Northern Tinker Frog ( Taudactylus rheophilus ) and the Sharp Snouted Day Frog ( Taudactylus acutirostris ) which is already considered extinct in some places.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012.