Narrien Range National Park

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Narrien Range National Park
Black-chin honey taster (Melithreptus gularis)
Black-chin honey taster ( Melithreptus gularis )
Narrien Range National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 22 ° 54 ′ 40.1 ″  S , 146 ° 58 ′ 2.3 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Next city: 71 kilometer (s) from Clermont
Surface: 74.60 km²
Founding: 1991
Miniature sacred marten (Dasyurus hallucatus)
Miniature sacred marten ( Dasyurus hallucatus )
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The Narrien Range National Park (English Narrien Range National Park ) is a 74.6 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia .

location

It is located in the Fitzroy region about 790 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 370 kilometers west of Rockhampton . The nearest town is Clermont , from here the park can be reached via the Clermont Alpha Road and after about 40 kilometers further via the Pioneer Clydevale and Albro Pioneer Road . There are no visitor facilities in the park.

The national parks Epping Forest , Cudmore and Mazeppa are in the neighborhood .

General

The park is located in the middle of the range of hills of the Narrien Range which extends for 13 kilometers in a north-south direction. With the 759 meter high summit of Mount Campoven , the hills, visible from afar, protruded from the surrounding lowlands. While the higher, inaccessible areas have remained largely untouched in the past, the surrounding plains have been cleared and used for cattle breeding. Around 90 percent of the ecosystems in the Brigalow Belt North bioregion have been destroyed in this way since they were settled by the Europeans. The national park protects six different plant and animal communities in this bioregion, which have largely been preserved in their original state.

Flora and fauna

Particularly worthy of protection are scrubland, with "Lancewood" ( Acacia shirleyi ) and "Bendee" ( Acacia catenulata ) scrub, and open woodland with "Blackbutts" ( Eucalyptus cambageana ), "Mountain Yapunyah" ( Eucalyptus thozetiana ) and one Substructure made from "Brigalow" ( Acacia harpophylla ).

The park with its diverse flora is also a retreat for numerous animal species. Four different frog , 31 reptile , 17 mammal and 101 bird species were counted here. The crested kite ( Lophoictinia isura ), the letter pigeon ( Geophaps scripta ), the black-chin honey-gourmet ( Melithreptus gularis ), the pygmy marten ( Dasyurus hallucatus ) and the yakka skink ( Egernia rugosa ) are threatened or endangered with extinction .

The eastern edge of the distribution area of ​​the red giant kangaroo extends into the Narrien Range National Park.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Management Plan 2011 (PDF; 5.1 MB), Queensland Government, accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  4. ↑ a b Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012