Stokes National Park

Stokes National Park
Coordinates: 33 ° 49 ′ 22 ″  S , 121 ° 8 ′ 5 ″  E
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Specialty:	Estuary system
Next city:	80 kilometer (s) from Esperance
Surface:	106 km²
Founding:	1976

The Stokes National Park (English Stokes National Park ) is a 106 square kilometer national park in the south of Western Australia , Australia .

location

The park is 550 kilometers east of Perth and 80 kilometers west of Esperance . It runs along the south coast of Australia over a length of 70 kilometers. The area around Stokes Inlet can be reached from the South Coast Highway via the six-kilometer gravel road of the same name . All other facilities in the park are only accessible by boat or four-wheel drive vehicle .

history

The Stokes Inlet and Lort River were named in 1848 by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe after his friend John Lort Stokes . From 1860 the area of ​​today's national park was mainly used for sheep breeding. The foundation walls of an old farmhouse, the Moir Homestead , can still be seen today. A little later, towards the end of the 19th century, prospectors used the area around Fanny Cove to get to the gold fields at Norseman and Dundas.

Stokes Inlet

East of Albany is Stokes Inlet , the largest estuary system and one of the few that does not dry out during the time when access to the sea is blocked by a sandbar. This natural barrier can often exist for years. When it breaks, access to the sea usually only opens for a few weeks. As a result, the water level and salinity in the 14 square kilometer estuary vary greatly - depending on the inflow from the Lort and Young Rivers , as well as the rate of evaporation .

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official website of the park. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .