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Encyclopedia > Wollemi National Park

Wollemi is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 129 km northwest of Sydney.


It is the site of only known stand of the Wollemi Pine, a species thought to have become extinct before Australia separated from Antarctica approximately thirty million years ago but discovered alive in the 1990s.


Fact sheet

  • Area: 5000.64 kmē
  • Latitude: 32° 52' 26" S
  • Longitude: 150° 29' 32" E
  • Date of establishment: December 14, 1979
  • Managing authorities: New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service
  • IUCN category: Ib

See also: Protected areas of New South Wales (Australia)

 

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