| Lamington National Park | | IUCN Category II (National Park) | | | | Nearest town/city: | Canungra | | Coordinates: | 28°08′32″S, 153°06′55″E | | Area: | 206 km² | | Managing authorities: | Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service | | Official site: | Lamington National Park | Lamington is a national park in Queensland, Australia, lying on the Lamington Plateau 75 km south of Brisbane. It is a part of the World Heritage site, Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves. Most of the park is situated 900 m above sea level only 30 km from the Pacific's ocean shores. The World Conservation Union or International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ...
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada A national park is a reserve of land, usually, but not always (see National Parks of England and Wales), declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ...
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Canungra is a small picturesque rural township in South East Queensland, Australia. ...
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Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...
Box Log Falls, Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. ...
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The plateaus and cliffs in Lamington and Springbrook National Parks are the Northern and North Western remnants of the huge 20 Million year old Wollumbin volcano, Mount Warning. The Nerang River, Albert River and Coomera River all have their source in Lamington National Park. Springbrook is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 78 km south of Brisbane. ...
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History
For at least 6000 years, Aboriginal people lived in and visited these mountains. Roughly 900 years ago the indigenous population began to decline. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1077x808, 145 KB) Summary Binna Burra. ...
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Binna Burra is a region of Lamington National Park in Queensland (Australia), lying on the Lamington Plateau 75 km south of Brisbane. ...
Languages Several hundred Indigenous Australian languages (many extinct or nearly so), Australian English, Australian Aboriginal English, Torres Strait Creole, Kriol Religions Primarily Christian, with minorities of other religions including various forms of Traditional belief systems based around the Dreamtime Related ethnic groups see List of Indigenous Australian group names Indigenous...
Captain Patrick Logan and Allan Cunningham were the first European explorers in the area. The timber cutters soon followed. Patrick Logan (1791 - October 1830) is best known as commandant of Moreton Bay penal colony from 1826 until his death 1830. ...
Portait of Allan Cunningham Allan Cunningham (13 July 1791 – 27 June 1839) was an English botanist and explorer, primarily known for his travels in New South Wales to collect plants. ...
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Early European settlers such as Romeo Lahey also valued the natural beauty of the area, and fought to make it one of the first protected areas in Queensland. The O’Reilly family established a guesthouse near the park in 1926 and founding members of the National Parks Association of Queensland built Binna burra Lodge next to the park in the 1930s. Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Binna Burra is a region of Lamington National Park in Queensland (Australia), lying on the Lamington Plateau 75 km south of Brisbane. ...
The park was named after Lord Lamington. Alexander Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie, 1st Baron Lamington (24 November 1816–15 February 1890), better known as Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, was a British Conservative politician perhaps best known for his association with Young England in the early 1840s. ...
Benard O’Reilly became a hero when he rescued the survivors from a crashed Stinson plane from the remote Lamington wilderness. In typical Aussie Bushman Fashion he embarked on his rescue mission taking only onions to eat. Alfonso Bernard OReilly (known as Bernard) (September 3, 1903-January 20, 1975) was a famous Australian bushman and author. ...
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Natural heritage
The view from a lookout on the 19 km long Ships Stern Circuit. Rugged mountain scenery, tumbling waterfalls, rainforest, wildflower heaths, tall open forests, picturesque creeks, varied wildlife and some of the best bushwalking in Queensland are protected in Lamington National Park. One of Queensland’s best-loved parks, Lamington is the core of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves Australia World Heritage Area along the ajoining Border Ranges National Park in New South Wales. The park’s beautiful rainforests include one of the largest upland subtropical rainforest remnants in the world and the most northern Nothofagus moorei|southern beech cool temperate rainforests in Australia. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 532 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 681 pixel, file size: 128 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Looking south along the western side of Ships Stern I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia. ...
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Beautiful natural scenes are common hiking destinations Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ...
A diverse set of tropical rainforest flora is preserved along Brindle Creek. ...
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Binomial name Nothofagus moorei (F. Muell. ...
Lamington is home to an incredible variety of wildlife including rare and threatened animals such as the Coxen’s fig-parrot, Eastern bristlebird, Albert's Lirebird, Richmond Birdwing butterfly and plants such as the Ravine and Blotched Sarchochilus orchids. Many of Lamington's plants are found nowhere else on earth such as O’Reilly's Pittosporum and the Lamington Peach Myrtle or the Mt Merino Eyebright, Everlasting Daisy and Gaultheria which are subalpine relics from the last ice age. Lamington is also one of the few locations where the rare eastern underground orchid (Rhizanthella slateri) has been reported. This species has no chlorophyll and depends entirely upon a symbiotic fungus for survival it is also one of only three(3)flowering plants on earth to complete it's life cycle entirely underground. In 2006 another species of this genus has been described, it has not yet been found anywhere else and is thus called Lamington Underground Orchid (Rhizanthella omissa). Systematics (but see below) Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos) Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo) Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos) Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos) Family Psittacidae (true parrots) Subfamily Loriinae (lories and lorikeets) Subfamily Psittacinae (typical parrots and allies) Tribe Arini (American psittacines) Tribe Cyclopsitticini (fig parrots) Tribe Micropsittini (pygmy parrots) Tribe Nestorini (kakas and...
Species Many; see article Birdwings are large, tropical papilionid butterflies native to mainland and archipelagic Southeast Asia and Australasia (with one Indian species), and are usually regarded as belonging to three genera: Ornithoptera, Trogonoptera and Troides. ...
Orchid re-directs here; for alternate uses see Orchid (disambiguation) Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ...
Species Many species, including Pittosporum angustifolium Pittosporum bicolor Pittosporum bracteolatum Pittosporum coriaceum Pittosporum crassifolium Pittosporum erioloma Pittosporum ferrugineum Pittosporum lancifolium Pittosporum ligustrifolium Pittosporum moluccanum Pittosporum multiflorum Pittosporum oreillyanum Pittosporum nativitatis Pittosporum phillyreoides Pittosporum resiniferum Pittosporum revolutum Pittosporum rhombifolium Pittosporum rubiginosum Pittosporum spinescens Pittosporum tenuifolium Pittosporum tobira Pittosporum trilobum Pittosporum undulatum...
Species Myrtus communis L. Myrtus nivellei Batt. ...
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Species About 170 species, including: Gaultheria adenothrix Gaultheria antarctica Gaultheria antipoda Gaultheria caudata Gaultheria codonantha Gaultheria cumingiana Gaultheria cuneata Gaultheria depressa Gaultheria eriophylla Gaultheria forrestii Gaultheria fragrantissima Gaultheria hirtiflora Gaultheria hispida Gaultheria hispidula Gaultheria hookeri Gaultheria humifusa Gaultheria insana Gaultheria itoana Gaultheria lanceolata Gaultheria macrostigma Gaultheria miqueliana Gaultheria mucronata Gaultheria...
// Summary The subalpine Biome is a geographic and altitudinal region found below Tree-line and above the montane. ...
Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ...
Rhizanthella slateri is a terrestrial saprophytic orchid with fleshy underground stem to 15 cm long and 15 mm diam. ...
Chlorophyll gives leaves their green color Space-filling model of the chlorophyll molecule Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. ...
Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in their Magnificent Sea Anemone (Heteractis magnifica) home. ...
Waterfalls The park contains numerous waterfalls such as Elabana Falls and Running Creek Falls in the south of the park which falls into a box canyon. Yarrbilgong Falls and Coomera Falls flow into Coomera Gorge.
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Bushwalking The park is covered by a series of clearly marked walks that were constructed during the Great Depression. Some are short and others are steep and take up to seven hours to complete. The well maintained and signed Border Track, follows the border between New South Wales and Queensland along the top of the McPherson Range. This track links Binna Burra to the O'Reilly guesthouse at Green Mountains, a distance of some 21 kilometres which can be completed one way in a day or 7 to 9 hours. For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation). ...
A number of other well marked and varied walks connect with this Border Track creating a network which can be easily negotiated by relatively inexperienced bushwalkers. These include the Box Forest Circuit (10.9 km or 4 hours return from O'Reilly's), Toolona Creek Circuit (17.4 km or 6 hours return), and the Albert River Circuit (20.6 km or 7 hours return to O'Reilly's) to name some of the best known. While the Border Track remains reasonably level for most of its length, many of the other tracks decend to lower altitudes of 750 metres or less and provide access to some of the incredible variety of flora, fauna and geography to be found in the park.
For experienced walkers there are also numerous trails traversing the park. These trails do not have clear tracks; in many cases there are only occasional markers in the natural forest and it is inadvisable to use them without the company of an experienced bushwalker who knows the area. Map reading and good navigation skills are a necessity and National Park Rangers should be notified before commencing. Camping overnight is not permitted without a permit.
There are a number of natural hazards such as leeches, snakes and stinging trees that bushwalkers should be aware of. For other uses, see Leech (disambiguation). ...
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References - Lackner, Thomas (1989). Discovering Binna Burra on Foot. Envirobook. ISBN 0-85881-088-3.
- (1980) Seeing South-East Queensland, 2, RACQ, p. 53. ISBN 0-909518-07-6.
External links - History of the Lamington Plateau
- "back-paths of the dark earth" - experiences studying ecology in Lamington National Park
- Official site
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