Rundle Range National Park

Rundle Range National Park
Fox tail ( Rhipidura rufifrons )
Coordinates: 23 ° 38 ′ 50.4 ″  S , 150 ° 58 ′ 28.2 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	coastal rainforest
Next city:	22 mile (s) from Gladstone
Surface:	21.7 km²
Founding:	1994

The Rundle Range National Park (English Rundle Range National Park ) is a 21.7 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . The 7.06 square kilometer Rundle Range Resources Reserve connects to the south and east .

location

The national park is located in the Mackay region about 470 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 55 kilometers southeast of Rockhampton . It is an area in the delta of the Fitzroy River that is not directly connected to the sea .

The closest town is Gladstone . From here you can reach the park via the Bruce Highway north. At Ambrose you branch off onto the unpaved Darts Creek Road and after 15 kilometers you reach the national park. There are no visitor facilities in the park itself.

On the mainland in the vicinity are the national parks Dan Dan and Mount Archer , off the coast Curtis Island and Keppel Bay Islands .

National nature

The park is surrounded by Watt that in salt pans and mangrove passes between the estuary of the Fitzroy River and Curtis Iceland are. The ten kilometer long chain of hills of the Rundle Range rises here. Various plant communities can be found on their gentle slopes, including dry rainforest , eucalyptus- dominated forest and one of only two remaining occurrences of coastal Casuarina cristata communities.

Numerous bird species live in the park, including the endangered crested kite ( Lophoictinia isura ), brown-headed cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus lathami ) and letter dove ( Geophaps scripta ). The mask monarch ( Monarcha melanopsis ) and the fox fan tail ( Rhipidura rufifrons ) can often be seen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2004 ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Excel ; 129 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English) 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rundle Range National Park & ​​Rundle Range Resources Reserve - Management Plan (PDF file; 4.99 MB), Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed January 7, 2013 (English)
4. ↑ Official Park Website - Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012