Torndirrup National Park

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Torndirrup National Park
The gap
The gap
Torndirrup National Park (Western Australia)
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Coordinates: 35 ° 5 ′ 25 ″  S , 117 ° 53 ′ 29 ″  E
Location: Western Australia , Australia
Specialty: Gneiss formations
Next city: 15 kilometer (s) from Albany
Surface: 40.22 km²
Founding: 1918
Visitors: 372,000 (2017)
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The Torndirrup National Park (English Torndirrup National Park ) is a 40 km² national park in the south of Western Australia , Australia . It is named after the name of a local Aboriginal group. It is the most visited national park in the region and the sixth most visited national park in Western Australia.

location

The park is located on the peninsula Torndirrup Peninsula , the south of the town Albany in the southern Indian Ocean ( Southern Ocean extends to Australian definition) and Albany's Princess Royal Harbor and the King George Sound forms. The Torndirrup National Park extends over a length of 20 kilometers along the south coast of the peninsula and includes its entire tip, which is over five kilometers long.

Albany is around 15 kilometers away on the opposite side of the King Georgge Sound.

geology

Torndirrup National Park is known for its rock formations along the coast. The best known include The Gap , Natural Bridge and The Blowholes .

The peninsula consists of different rocks , the oldest are the gneisses . They formed 1.3 to 1.6 billion years ago when the Australian and Antarctic plates separated. Today gneiss is mainly visible in the area of The Gap , easily recognizable by its streaky texture .

The second predominant rock in the park is granite . Especially at Stony Hill you can easily recognize it by its grainy crystal structures and its characteristic weathering form , the wool sack weathering , which is represented in round rock forms. This granite was formed much later than the gneisses, when magma rose through the old rocks and slowly solidified at a depth of 20 km. This deep rock became visible in its present form through the uplift of the Australian continent and the associated erosion on the earth's surface.

Flora and fauna

"Western Australian Peppermint" ( Agonis flexuosa ) grows on sand hills in Torndirrup National Park. There are karri forests ( Eucalyptus diversicolor ) south of the Vancouver Peninsula, which separates Princess Royal Harbor from King George Sound. Similarly, one finds banksia types, and the rare "Albany Wollybush" within the national park.

The varied flora is home to a large number of animal species, including bilchbuckler , kangaroo , short-nosed buttler species and the bush rat ( Rattus fuscipes ). The reptile species include the spotted python , the bardick ( Echiopsis curta ), tiger otter and brown snake species. Whale species can often be spotted along the cliffs , and seal species visit the coast in winter .

Web links

Commons : Torndirrup National Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Department of Parks and Wildlife (Ed.): Department of Parks and Wildlife 2016–17 Annual Report . Kensington September 2017 ( dpaw.wa.gov.au [PDF; accessed July 20, 2019]).
  2. ^ Albany, Western Australia: Travel guide and things to do. (No longer available online.) The Sydney Morning Herald , December 12, 2014, archived from the original on January 18, 2016 ; accessed on January 18, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.traveller.com.au
  3. ↑ Albania Coast Parks and Reserves Management Plan 2017. (PDF) Department of Parks and Wildlife, August 2017, p. 52 , accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
  5. ↑ a b c Official website of the park. Retrieved January 18, 2016 .