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Encyclopedia > Mount Worth State Park
Mount Worth State Park
Location Victoria, Australia
Nearest City Warragul
Coordinates 38° 16′ 00″ S 146° 00′ 00″ E
Area 10.40 km²
Date of Establishment 1975
Governing Bodies [Parks Victoria]

Mount Worth State Park is a state park in Victoria, Australia. It is located 15 km south of Warragul in the western Strzelecki Ranges. It offers rainforest walking trails and scenic views of Gippsland as well as across the Latrobe Valley to the Great Dividing Range. Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ... City lights from space. ... Warragul is a rural centre with a population of 10,397 people (census 2001), 100 kilometres east of Melbourne. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Governor HE Mr John Landy Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Area 237,629 km² (6th)  - Land 227,416 km²  - Water 10,213 km² (4. ... Warragul is a rural centre with a population of 10,397 people (census 2001), 100 kilometres east of Melbourne. ... Strzelecki Ranges, also known as Strzelecki Hills is a low mountain range situated in the Gippsland region of south-eastern Australia between the Latrobe Valley to the north and Bass Strait to the south. ... Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. ... The Latrobe Valley of Australia is nestled geographically between the Strezlecki and Great Dividing Ranges. ... The Great Divide runs around the entire eastern and south-eastern edge of Australia The Great Dividing Range is Australias only substantial mountain range. ...


The wet, mountain rainforest of Mountain Ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching 300 years old), Blackwood and Mountain Grey Gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, Crimson Rosella, lyrebird and many others. Binomial name Eucalyptus regnans The Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) of southern Australia is the tallest of all flowering plants, and perhaps the tallest of all plants, period - although the tallest specimens have all been destroyed by humans. ... Species ~1,300; See List of Acacia species Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees of Gondwanian origin belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the Pea Family Fabaceae, first described from Africa by Linnaeus in 1773. ... Families and Genera Cytheaceae     Alsophila     Cnemidaria     Cythaea     Sphaeropteris     Trichipteris Dicksoniaceae     Calochlaena     Cibotium     Culcita     Cystodium     Dicksonia     Thyrsopteris Losophoriaceae     Lophosoria Loxomaceae     Loxoma     Loxsomopsis Metaxyaceae     Metaxya The Order Cytheales is a taxonomic division of the fern (Division Pteridophyta) subclass, Cyatheatae, which includes the tree ferns. ... Genera and Species Vombatus Vombatus ursinus Lasiorhinus Lasiorhinus latifrons Lasiorhinus krefftii see Wombat for the Australian television program. ... Binomial name Trichosurus vulpecula The Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) is the largest possum, and the Australian marsupial most often seen by city-dwellers, since it is one the very few that thrives in cities as well as a wide range of natural and human-modified environments. ... Binomial name Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a small, semi-aquatic mammal endemic to the eastern part of Australia, and one of the four extant monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young (the other three are echidnas). ... Binomial name Platycercus elegans (Gmelin, 1788) The Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans, is a parrot native to east and south east Australia which has been introduced to New Zealand and Norfolk Island. ... Genera Menura A Lyrebird is either of two large ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. ...


See also: Protected areas of Victoria (Australia) Victoria is the smallest mainland state in Australia. ...


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Gippsland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1742 words)
West Gippsland extends from the southeastern limits of metropolitan Melbourne and Western Port Bay in the west to the Latrobe Valley in the east, and is bounded by the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Mount Baw Baw Plateau in the Great Dividing Range to the north.
Apart from gorges and southern slopes, this park is in a rain-shadow area forming the southern border of the Monaro Tableland.
Errinundra National Park is much wetter - inaccessible from June to October in most years - and features some of the most ancient forests in Australia, a matter of controversy as employment in the remote areas east of the Snowy is mainly dependent upon timber milling.
Letchworth State Park (3093 words)
One might divide the park into three manageable birding zones: the east side of the gorge, consisting of old farmland and grasslands along River Road; the west side of the gorge, which consists of the brushy, shrubby north end; and the flora/faunally rich, maturely forested south end.
Adjacent to the park is Livingston County Park.
The descriptions/maps to the Letchworth State Park is sponsored by NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
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