Yanga National Park

Yanga National Park
Coordinates: 34 ° 37 ′ 3 ″  S , 143 ° 38 ′ 35 ″  E
Location:	New South Wales , Australia
Specialty:	Floodplain
Next city:	Balranald
Surface:	311.9 km²
Founding:	November 2005

The Yanga National Park is a national park in the southwest of the Australian state of New South Wales . The 31,190 hectare park begins five kilometers east of Balranald and stretches over 170 kilometers along the south bank of the Murrumbidgee River . The park contains wetlands, swamps, lakes, and eucalyptus coastal forest (e.g., River Red Gum ). It offers large breeding areas for water birds.

Yanga used to be an important sheep breeding station founded in the 1830s by an explorer William Charles Wentworth . In July 2005, the New South Wales government announced that it had bought the station to create a national park.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yanga National Park . Office of Environment & Heritage. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
2. ↑ Lee Tim: Yanga Station laments Govt. Sale . Landline. Australian Broadcasting Corporation
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: New national park sparks jobs worry . ABC News Online (July 11, 2005)