Myall Lakes National Park
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Location: | New South Wales , Australia | |
Specialty: | Sandy beaches, sand dunes, lagoons, NSW's tallest tree | |
Next city: | Bulahdelah | |
Surface: | 448 km² | |
Founding: | 1972 |
The Myall Lakes National Park is a national park in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales , 188 kilometers northeast of Sydney and around 20 kilometers east of Bulahdelah .
The park surrounds the Myall Lakes , lagoons on the New South Wales coast, and also includes Broughton Island . It stretches along the coast from Hawks Nest and Tea Gardens in the south to Seal Rocks on Sugarloaf Bay in the north. To the west, the Pacific Highway borders the park.
The park has 40 kilometers of sandy beaches with sand dunes and wetlands protected by the Ramsar Convention . The grandis , a 76 meter high eucalyptus tree of the species Flooded Gum (eucalyptus grandis) , is the tallest tree in New South Wales.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd. Archerfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 27
- ^ Myall Lakes National Park . Office of Environment & Heritage. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service