Gibraltar Range National Park

Gibraltar Range National Park New South Wales
IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)
The park is an important site for Australian logrunners
Nearest town or city	Glen Innes
Established	1 October 1987 (1987-10-01)
Area	253 km2 (97.7 sq mi)
Managing authorities	National Parks and Wildlife Service NSW
See also	Protected areas of New South Wales

Gibraltar Range is a national park located in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. It is situated 79 kilometres (49 mi) northeast of Glen Innes and 493 kilometres (306 mi) north of Sydney. The Park is part of the Washpool and Gibraltar Range area, which is designed as a World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia. This area was inscribed in 1986 and was later added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007.^[1]

Birds

The Gibraltar Range a national park encompasses an area of 366-square-kilometre (141 sq mi) and is recognised as the Gibraltar Range Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it is a block of highland forest that supports one of only five remaining populations of the vulnerable rufous scrub-bird, as well as significant populations of green catbirds, Australian logrunners, paradise riflebirds and pale-yellow robins.^[2]

See also

• Protected areas of New South Wales
• Pappinbarra River
• Camden Haven River
• High Conservation Value Old Growth forest

Gallery

• 
  Dandahra Crags
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  Little Dandahra Creek
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  Granite boulders on Surveyors Creek
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  Mulligans Hut
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  Christmas bells in sedge heath near Surveyors Creek

References

External links

• Gibraltar Range National Park at the Department of Environment and Climate Change (New South Wales)

This page was last edited on 20 May 2024, at 05:55