Girraween National Park is an area of the Granite Belt in south-east Queensland, Australia reserved as a national park. The Granite Belt is an area of the Great Dividing Range in south-east Queensland, Australia centred around the town of Stanthorpe. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.
The park is situated 40km south of Stanthorpe, Queensland. Stanthorpe is a town situated in south east Queensland, Australia. The southern boundary of the park is the state border between Queensland and New South Wales.
It features granite landscapes and open forest. Granite (ˈɡrænɪt is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, Felsic, igneous rock. The granite outcroppings, such as the Pyramids and Castle Rock, dominate the local scenery.
The park features many kilometres of graded walking trails to the park's major features like the first Pyramid, Castle Rock, The Sphinx, Turtle Rock, Underground Creek and Mt Norman - the highest point in the park at 1267 metres. Fire trails can be followed when venturing into the southern and eastern sections of the park.
The park has abundant fauna, including some that are rarely seen elsewhere in Queensland, such as the common wombat, spotted quoll and the turquoise parrot. The Tiger Quoll ( Dasyurus maculatus) also known as the Spotted-tail Quoll, the Spotted Quoll, the Spotted-tailed Dasyure or (erroneously Parrots are birds of the roughly 350 Species in 85 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions
It is also famed for its flora. In spring, many wildflowers bloom, which led to its being called "place of flowers" in the indigenous language.
It is a twin park with Bald Rock National Park, which lies across the border in New South Wales, and features Bald Rock, the second-largest monolith (after Uluru) on the continent. Bald Rock National Park is a National park in northern New South Wales, Australia, just north of Tenterfield on the Queensland border Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large Sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, Central Australia Curiously, South Bald Rock and West Bald Rock lie in Girraween National Park in Queensland, not in Bald Rock NP in New South Wales.
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Fact sheet
- Area: 117. 00 km²
- Coordinates:
- Date of establishment: ?
- Managing authorities: Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
- IUCN category: II
See also
References
- C. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Queensland is the second largest mainland state in Australia. R. Twidale, Juan Ramón Vidal Romaní (2005). Landforms and Geology of Granitic Terrains. CRC Press. ISBN 0415364353.
External links
- Girraween National Park QLD www. exploroz. com
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