Swain Reefs National Park

Swain Reefs National Park
A pair of rose terns facing each other in conversation
Coordinates: 21 ° 14 ′ 22 ″  S , 151 ° 50 ′ 48 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Coral islands and terns
Next city:	Rockhampton
Surface:	58.15 hectares
Founding:	1995

The Swain Reefs National Park (English: Swain Reefs National Park ) is a national park in the east of the Australian state of Queensland and in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef . It is 703 kilometers north of Brisbane , 220 kilometers off the coast of Rockhampton .

National nature

The national park consists of small cays , which together have a land area of ​​58 hectares and were designated as a national park in 1995.

fauna

Nine of these islands with a total area of ​​9 hectares form the '' Swain Reef Important Bird Area '', which was designated by BirdLife International because more than 1% of the worldwide occurrence of the rose tern breed there. A total of 25,000 of this species have been counted on the islands. There are also masks , and brown booby , Silver head seagull , Schwarznacken- , soot , chinstrap , express , Rüppell- and little tern , black ( Anous minutus ) and brown Noddis ( Anous stolidus ) and Arielfregattvögel .

The nine cays are as follows:

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

Cay Area ha Coordinates Gannett Cay 1.7 21 ° 58 ′ 49.0 ″  S , 152 ° 28 ′ 24.0 ″  E Bylund Cay 0.6 21 ° 47 ′ 22.0 ″  S , 152 ° 24 ′ 54.0 ″  E Thomas Cay 1.0 21 ° 38 ′ 40.0 ″  S , 152 ° 21 ′ 55.0 ″  E Bacchi Cay 0.5 21 ° 38 ′ 08.0 ″  S , 152 ° 22 ′ 50.0 ″  E Frigate Cay 2.0 21 ° 44 ′ 18.0 ″  S , 152 ° 25 ′ 03.0 ″  E Price Cay 1.6 21 ° 47 ′ 19.0 ″  S , 152 ° 27 ′ 03.0 ″  E Distant Cay 0.25 21 ° 06 ′ 01.0 ″  S , 152 ° 28 ′ 59.0 ″  E Riptide Cay 0.25 21 ° 14 ′ 22.0 ″  S , 151 ° 50 ′ 30.0 ″  E Bell Cay 1.5 21 ° 48 ′ 33.0 ″  S , 151 ° 14 ′ 55.0 ″  E Swain Reefs NP 58.15 21 ° 14 ′ 22.0 ″  S , 151 ° 50 ′ 48.0 ″  E

Web links

• Swains Reef . FeverFeverFever.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on January 7, 2013 (English)
3. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 11
4. ↑ IBA: Swain Reefs . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
5. ↑ Important Bird Areas factsheet - Swain Reefs . BirdLife International (2011). Retrieved October 16, 2011