Seaview Range
| Seaview Range | ||
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 Wallaman Falls |
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| location | Queensland | |
| part of | Great dividing range | |
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| Coordinates | 18 ° 38 ′ S , 145 ° 53 ′ E | |
| particularities | Girringun National Park | |
The Seaview Range is part of the Great Dividing Range and a mountainous area west of Ingham in northern Queensland , Australia . Large areas of the highlands are covered by rainforests, which in Girringun National Park in the Wet Tropics of Queensland , a UNESCO - World Heritage protected.
The Burdekin River and the Herbert River , whose tributary Stony Creek forms the Wallaman Waterfall , the highest single-stage waterfall in Australia, have their source in this area .
The Seaview Range is, among other things, the distribution area of the column gardener , the smallest species among the bowerbirds .
history
The Seaview Range was first explored by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1873 and declared a World Heritage Site in 1978.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rivers - Assessment of River Condition - Queensland . In: Australian Natural Resources Atlas . Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts . Archived from the original on October 8, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
- ↑ Clifford B. Frith, Dawn. W. Frith: The Bowerbirds - Ptilonorhynchidae . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-854844-3 . P. 314
- ^ History of World Heritage listing . Wet Tropics Management Authority. Archived from the original on September 12, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
