Wrattens National Park
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Location: | Queensland , Australia | |
Next city: | 23.00 mile (s) from Gympie | |
Surface: | 208.69 km² | |
Founding: | 2009 |
The Wrattens National Park (English Wrattens National Park ) is a 209 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia .
location
It is in the Wide Bay-Burnett region , 150 kilometers north of Brisbane and 120 kilometers south of Hervey Bay . From Gympie you can take the Gympie Woolooga Road to Widgee , where the Upper Widgee Road branches off to the west, which reaches the park boundary after about ten kilometers. There are no visitor facilities in the park itself.
The Oakview , Conondale and Glastonbury National Parks are in the vicinity .
Flora and fauna
The national park protects dry rainforest and open eucalyptus forest up to 700 meters high . The area is a retreat for some endangered animal and plant species, including the black breasted chicken ( Turnix melanogaster ), the cascade tree frog, and the giant ironwood ( Choricarpia subargentea ). The giant sacred marten ( Dasyurus maculatus ), classified as endangered, is also at home in the park.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
- ↑ a b Wrattens National Park . Google Maps - Terrain
- ↑ Gympie's new National Park , The Gympie Times, June 6, 2009. Retrieved October 7, 2012 (English)
- ↑ Quolls (Dasyurus maculatus and D. hallucatus) in the southern Mary River catchment, south-east Queensland ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2013 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; 1.1 MB), www.wildlife.org, accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)