Tully Gorge National Park

Tully Gorge National Park
Coordinates: 17 ° 40 ′ 33.4 ″  S , 145 ° 30 ′ 56.4 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Rainforest
Next city:	60 kilometer (s) from Innisfail
Surface:	598.6 km²
Founding:	1923

The Tully Gorge National Park (English Tully Gorge National Park ) is a 598.6 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia . Due to a multitude of endemic bird species, the park is part of the Wooroonooran Important Bird Area and the UNESCO World Heritage Site Wet Tropics of Queensland .

location

The park is located in the North Queensland region , about 60 kilometers west of Innisfail and 90 kilometers southwest of Cairns . The Tully Falls , Wooroonooran , Japoon and Koombooloomba National Park are in the immediate vicinity. The park can be reached by vehicle via a 35 km long access road that branches off the Bruce Highway at Tully .

description

The Tully Gorge (Eng .: Tully Gorge ) is one of the wettest areas in the Wet Tropics. The Tully River with its numerous tributaries plunges down the slopes of the Cardwell Range and flows towards the sea in the gorge overgrown with dense tropical rainforest . A short hiking trail leads from the Tully Gorge campsite through the rainforest, where you can see butterflies , especially between September and February . A more challenging hike begins near the town of Tully and leads to the 678-meter-high summit of Mount Tyson with beautiful views of the coast and the offshore Hinchinbrook Island . Another attraction is the Alligators Nest , named not after the reptile but after the scout group The Alligators , a sandy bathing area 6 kilometers north of Tully. There are two campsites in the park.

Web links

• Official site of the park - About (English)
• Official website of the park - Nature, culture and history (English)

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. ↑ Important Bird Areas (IBAs) - Wooroonooran , www.birdlife.org, accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Wet tropics coast national parks ( Memento of the original from October 1, 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. (PDF; 5.7 MB), Queensland Government, accessed October 7, 2012 (English)