Wrattens National Park

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Wrattens National Park
Giant pouch marten (Tiger Quoll)
Giant pouch marten ( Tiger Quoll )
Wrattens National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 26 ° 17 ′ 28.6 ″  S , 152 ° 20 ′ 15.1 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Next city: 23.00 mile (s) from Gympie
Surface: 208.69 km²
Founding: 2009
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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

  1. a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. a b Wrattens National Park . Google Maps - Terrain
  3. Gympie's new National Park , The Gympie Times, June 6, 2009. Retrieved October 7, 2012 (English)
  4. 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)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wildlife.org.au