Pinnacles National Park (Queensland)

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Pinnacles National Park
Kläfferkauz (Ninox connivens)
Kläfferkauz ( Ninox connivens )
Pinnacles National Park (Queensland) (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 19 ° 25 ′ 37.2 ″  S , 146 ° 34 ′ 17.2 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Specialty: Eucalyptus forests
Next city: 30 kilometer (s) from Townsville
Surface: 11.37 km²
Founding: 2011
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The Pinnacles National Park (English Pinnacles National Park ) has the size of 11.37 square kilometers and is located in Queensland , Australia .

location

Pinnacles National Park is located in the North Queensland region and is 30 kilometers southwest of Townsville . It can be reached via Harvey Range Road, from which one branches off immediately before Rupertswood on the unpaved Granitevale Road heading south. After about eight kilometers you reach the national park. However, there are no visitor facilities there.

The national parks Paluma Range , Bowling Green Bay , Dalrymple and Magnetic Island are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

The Pinnacles National Park protects dry eucalyptus and, in some small niches, rainforest . Here lives Kläfferkauz ( Ninox connivens ), a bird of the genus Buschkäuze ( Ninox ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
  2. ↑ Official Park Website - Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012