Yalgorup National Park

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Yalgorup National Park
Lake Clifton Observation Deck
Lake Clifton Observation Deck
Yalgorup National Park (Western Australia)
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Coordinates: 32 ° 51 ′ 26 ″  S , 115 ° 40 ′ 19 ″  E
Location: Western Australia , Australia
Specialty: Seascape
Next city: 20 km from Mandurah
Surface: 1,159 km²
Founding: 1966
Thrombolites
Thrombolites
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The Yalgorup National Park (English Yalgorup National Park ) is a 1159 square kilometer national park in the southwest of Western Australia , Australia .

location

The park is located approximately 100 kilometers south of Perth and 20 kilometers southwest of Mandurah . It runs in a strip up to 10 km wide between the coast of the Indian Ocean and the Bunbury Highway inland.

history

The name Yalgorup is derived from two words from the Noongar Aboriginal language : Yalgor , meaning swamp or lake , and up , a suffix for a place . Doctor Alexander Collie and Lieutenant William Preston were the first Europeans to come to the area when they explored the coast from Mandurah to Bunbury in 1829 . They also named the park's two largest lakes: Lake Preston and Lake Clifton .

geology

The soils of Yalgorup National Park are of oceanic origin. They mainly consist of calcareous material from mussels and other marine organisms. These soils were deposited as a series of dunes parallel to the present-day coastline as a result of fluctuations in sea level . The lakes characteristic of the park are located in the valleys of this dune system.

Rock-like structures known as thrombolites are found along Lake Clifton . Like the better-known stromatolites of the Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay , the thrombolites are also formed by tiny microorganisms. They are among the earliest forms of life and inhabited the earth between 3.5 billion and 650 million years ago.

Web links

Commons : Yalgorup National Park  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
  2. ↑ a b c Official website of the park. Retrieved January 18, 2016 .