Yarrahapinni Wetlands National Park

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Yarrahapinni Wetlands National Park
Yarrahapinni Wetlands National Park, New South Wales
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Coordinates: 30 ° 53 ′ 47 ″  S , 152 ° 58 ′ 22 ″  E
Location: New South Wales , Australia
Specialty: Wetland in an estuary
Next city: Stuart's Point
Surface: 8.06 km²
Founding: February 2007
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The Yarrahapinni Wetlands National Park is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales , 25 km northeast of Kempsey and 68 km south of Coffs Harbor .

The park is located immediately south of the Yarriabini National Park, right in the mouth of the Macleay River . There you will find large forests of seagrass and mangrove . Before 1971, the area was known as Yarrahapinni Broadwater . In the 1960s, flood gates were built in front of the estuary to limit the flood backflow into the wetland , but then it was found that biodiversity was decreasing in an undesirable way. In 1996 this measure was reversed and in 2007 the area was declared a national park.

The area was settled by the Aborigines around 9,000 years ago. From about 3000 BC It was used by the local Gumbayngirr and Dunghutti tribes as a place for Køkkenmøddinger until almost the birth of Christ . In the largest Køkkenmøddinger area in an estuary in Australia (14 km) there are still seven Køkkenmøddinger and one Bora ceremonial site . The name Yarr-ar-pin-ni has a mythological connection with the killing of a giant koala .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd. Archerfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978174193232-4 . P. 29
  2. ^ Yarrahapinni Wetlands National Park . NSW Environment & Heritage Office
  3. ↑ a b Yarrahapinni Wetlands . Kempsey Shire Council ( April 13, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive )