Popran National Park

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Popran National Park
Popran National Park, New South Wales
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Coordinates: 33 ° 22 ′ 37 ″  S , 151 ° 10 ′ 47 ″  E
Location: New South Wales , Australia
Specialty: Wooded sandstone plateau, mangrove swamps
Next city: Lower Mangrove, Greengrove, Mangrove Creek, Central Mangrove, Calga
Surface: 39.7 km²
Founding: November 30, 1994
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The Popran National Park is a national park in eastern Australian state of New South Wales , 56 kilometers north of Sydney . The park is located north of the lower reaches of the Hawkesbury River and consists of five non-contiguous areas.

location

Most of it lies between Mangrove Creek and Popran Creek north of the small town of Lower Mangrove . Smaller parts are in the north further up on Popran Creek near Central Mangrove , in the south on the Hawkesbury River, in the west near the small town of Mangrove Creek and in the east near Calga on the Pacific Highway . The Dharug National Park borders in the west, the Brisbane Water National Park in the east and the Marramarra National Park in the south.

geology

The largest part of the park consists of a sandstone plateau in which the streams such as Mangrove Creek, Popran Creek and Ironbank Creek have carved themselves.

history

The Aboriginesstämme the Dharug and Ku-ring-gai lived for 11,000 years ago in what is now the National Park. Remnants of this culture can still be seen in many places in the park.

From the first days of European settlement until around 1980, wood was felled in the area of ​​today's park. There were also some farms on land that the government gave to the released inmates. In the middle of the 20th century, however, the last settlers moved away as the costs of transporting goods to buyers in Sydney became increasingly higher.

On November 30, 1994, the area was declared a national park.

Flora and fauna

In the Popran National Park 450 different plant species have been registered, which can be found in 19 different habitats, including mangrove swamps on the waterways, eucalyptus forest and temperate rainforest .

Endangered animal species in the park are different types of owl ( Powerful Owl, Masked Owl ), black bittern , giant pouch marten , brushtail beetle , different types of glider ( Yellow-bellied Glider, Squirrel Glider ), a type of toad ( Red-crowned Toadlet ) and different types of frog ( Green Bell Frog, Golden Bell Frog ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Popran National Park - Plants, Animals and Landscape . Office of Environment & Heritage. Government of New South Wales
  2. ^ A b Popran National Park - Culture and History . Office of Environment & Heritage. Government of New South Wales