Walpole Nornalup National Park

Walpole Nornalup National Park
Tree Top Walk in the Valley of the Giants
Coordinates: 34 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  S , 116 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Specialty:	Karri and Red Tigle eucalyptus forests
Next city:	Walpole
Surface:	159 km²
Founding:	1957
Visitors:	291,000 (2004)

The Walpole-Nornalup National Park is a park in Western Australia in Walpole , 355 kilometers south of Perth . The park, founded in 1957, covers an area of ​​159 km².

The park is best known as one of the last larger occurrences of the carribree ( Eucalyptus diversicolor ) and the "Red Tingle" ( Eucalyptus jacksonii ).

Most visitors, 291,000 in 2004, are drawn to the Valley of the Giants , where the trees on the Tree Top Walk can be viewed from an unusual perspective from a treetop path at a height of 40 m.

Location and landscape

The park is located in an unusually rainy area of ​​Western Australia and surrounds the towns of Walpole , Nornalup and Peaceful Bay . The park consists of largely untouched forest, but it extends all the way to the sea, so that parts of the coast also belong to the park.

Flora and fauna

Conspicuous Cliff

In total, the park is home to 698 different plant species, including 104 orchids .

There are 19 species of mammals , 109 species of birds and 22 species of reptiles in the park .

Web links

• parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/park/walpole-nornalup (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Management plan. (pdf) (No longer available online.) DEC , 2005, pp. 2–3 , formerly in the original ; accessed on June 17, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.