Wondul Range National Park

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Wondul Range National Park
Brown-headed Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami)
Brown-headed Cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus lathami )
Wondul Range National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 28 ° 3 ′ 29.4 ″  S , 151 ° 1 ′ 30.2 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Next city: 15 mile (s) from Millmerran
Surface: 35.55 km²
Founding: 1992
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The Wondul Range National Park (English Wondul Range National Park ) is a 35.6 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia .

location

It is located in the Darling Downs region about 210 kilometers west of Brisbane and 110 kilometers southwest of Toowoomba . The closest town is Millmerran . From here you can reach the park via the Gore Highway in a southwest direction. At the level of the small settlement Cypress Gardens, several forest roads branch off to the southeast. After another 5 kilometers you will reach the park boundary. In the national park itself there are only a few unpaved forest roads, but no visitor facilities.

The Bendidee and Southwood National Parks are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

In the Inglewood Sandstones bioregion, the Wondul Range National Park protects a species-rich plant community in open woodland that is not preserved in any other protected area. "Narrow-leaved Ironbarks" ( Eucalyptus crebra ), "Smooth-bark Apples" ( Angophora leiocarpa ), often together with "Bulloaks" ( Allocasuarina luehmannii ) and the "White Cypress Pine" ( Callitris glaucophylla ) grow on the slopes . On the other hand, "Brown Bloodwoods" ( Corymbia trachyphloia ) and "Stringybark She-Oaks" ( Allocasuarina inophloia ) thrive on the up to 450 meter high sandstone hills .

Over 187 species of vertebrate animals have been spotted in the park, including the endangered Brigalow scaly-foot ( Paradelma orientalis ), the greater long-eared bat ( Nyctophilus timoriensis ), the brown-headed cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus lathami ) and ( Chalinolobus picatus) ) from the smooth-nosed bat family .

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. ↑ OSM - Wondul Range National Park , OpenStreetMap , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  4. ↑ a b c Management Plan 2011 (PDF; 683 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  5. ↑ a b Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012