Nangar National Park

Nangar National Park
Coordinates: 33 ° 25 ′ 32 ″  S , 148 ° 30 ′ 15 ″  E
Location:	New South Wales , Australia
Specialty:	wooded hills
Next city:	Murga
Surface:	91.96 km²
Founding:	5th August 1983

The Nangar National Park is a national park in the center of the Australian state of New South Wales , 252 kilometers west of Sydney . The park is halfway between the towns of Orange and Forbes on the Nungar-Murga Range . In the park, which has an area of ​​92 km², is the highest point of this mountain range, the Nangar Mountain with a height of 778 meters.

The forest consists of black pines and eucalyptus trees , the scribbly gum (Eucalyptus rossii) and the ironbark (Eucalyptus crebra), the undergrowth consists of greville , thyme wolf's milk , blue lily ( Nodding Blue Lily , Stypandra glauca) and orchids ( Waxlip Orchid ).

Typical birds in the park are wrens , acanthiza , falcons , hawks , peregrine falcons and brown-headed cockatoos . The eastern gray giant kangaroo , as well as gray, red-necked and swamp wallabies are found in mammals .

Web links

• Nangar National Park . Office of Environment & Heritage. NSW Government
• Atlas of NSW Wildlife . National Parks & Wildlife Service. NSW Government

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nangar National Park - Park Management. In: Office of Environment & Heritage. NSW Government. Retrieved May 31, 2011 . 
2. ^ Nangar National Park - Plants, Animals and Landscape . Office of Environment & Heritage. NSW Government