Turtle Group National Park

Turtle Group National Park
White-bellied sea eagle
Coordinates: 14 ° 44 ′ 10 ″  S , 145 ° 12 ′ 11 ″  E
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Lagoon in the interior of the island, coral islands
Next city:	Cooktown
Surface:	1.05 km²
Founding:	1939

The Turtle Group National Park (English: Turtle Group National Park ) is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of Queensland . The small archipelago is 10 kilometers north of Lookout Point , a cape in the Ngulun-Munburra Resources Reserve .

The national park includes the Turtle Group of Islands, Nymph Island and the Pethebridge Islets , a total of nine islands. Nymph Island has an area of ​​65 hectares. The Turtle Group of Islands consists of six islands, designated by the letters a through f. The islands are part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Site .

National nature

Nymph Island consists of sand and coral rubble and has a tidal lagoon inside the island ( Inland Sea ), which is provided with many small atolls around 3700 years old and connected to the sea by a small stream.

The Turtle Group of Islands are coral islands covered in sand and pebbles. The individual islands are in the different stages of development of a coral island, from simple, sand-covered islands to islands with beach rocks and pebble banks.

Flora and fauna

There are extensive mangrove forests on Nymph Island . The islands of the Turtle Group of Islands are covered with grassland, light forest, mangroves and also dense rainforest .

Above all, birds can be seen on all the islands where they nest. Below is u. a. the rare curlew ( Numenius madagascariensis ), the rose tern , the great fruit pigeon and the white-bellied sea eagle .

Facilities and access

Wild camping is permitted on Nymph Island, Turtle Island a, Turtle Island b and Turtle Island f . However, no more than 10 people may camp per island and this for a maximum of 14 days. There are no special visitor facilities on any of the islands.

The islands can only be reached by private boats.

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
3. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 15
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Turtle Group National Park . Department of Environment and Resource Management. Retrieved December 11, 2012.