Reliance Creek National Park

Reliance Creek National Park
Coordinates: 21 ° 2 ′ 46.4 ″  S , 149 ° 6 ′ 32.4 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Next city:	9 mile (s) from Mackay
Surface:	30 ha
Founding:	1980

The Reliance Creek National Park (English Reliance Creek National Park ) is a national park of only 30 hectares in Queensland , Australia .

location

It is located halfway between Pioneer Peaks National Park and Mackay at the height of Dolphin Heads about three miles from the coast. There are no roads, hiking trails or other visitor facilities in the national park.

The national parks Cape Hillsborough , Mount Martin and Pioneer Peaks are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

Palm-dominated , coastal rainforest is the predominant form of vegetation. It is now considered endangered, although it almost completely covered the low-lying plains around Mackay before the European settlement. Today less than ten percent has been preserved in an original or quasi-original state. This type of rainforest is particularly important in providing seasonal food for birds, especially migratory and fruit-eating birds. Particularly worthy of protection are the threatened or near threatened plant species Sarcotheca heterophylla and Solanum sporadotrichum or the palm species Trigonostemon inopinatus .

Reliance Creek of the same name meanders through seasonally flooded alluvial soils .

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} Cape Hillsborough, Pioneer Peaks, Mount Ossa, Mount Martin and Reliance Creek National Parks and adjoining State Waters Management Plan (PDF; 1.9 MB), Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012 (English)