Border Ranges National Park

Coordinates: 28°21′35″S 152°59′10″E / 28.35972°S 152.98611°E / -28.35972; 152.98611
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Border Ranges National Park
NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
WebsiteBorder Ranges National Park
See alsoProtected areas of
New South Wales

The Border Ranges National Park is a

Kyogle.[1]

The park is part of the Shield Volcano Group

Australian National Heritage List in 2007.[4]

Geology

The Border Ranges region, which includes the McPherson Range, Tweed Range, Lamington Plateau and Levers Plateau, were formed from the erosion of the Tweed Volcano over many years. A number of volcanic plugs remain in the Border Ranges National Park.[5] Notable for extensive stands of Nothofagus moorei (Antarctic beech), the park offers a 64 kilometres (40 mi) gravel road circuit through sub tropical, cool and warm temperate rainforest types. The area was extensively logged during the 20th century, providing timber to a number of nearby sawmills.[5] The Lions Road and the Sydney–Brisbane rail corridor pass through the park at its narrow middle section.

Flora and fauna

Border Ranges and

endemic, rare and endangered species. Fauna is similarly diverse and species like the Hastings River mouse, have been rediscovered in the park in recent years.[6]

subtropical rainforest flora
is preserved along Brindle Creek.

Lower areas of the park contain eucalypt forests that provide habitat for

threatened birds.[7]

fruit of Syzygium francisii in Sawpit Creek, in the Border Ranges National Park. It dropped prodigious quantities of fruit, which floated down stream and collected in beautiful pink rafts, such as this.

The Border Ranges contains one of Australia's most diverse range of spider species within its montane rainforests.[8]

Facilities

Two camp grounds (car/camper and walk-in tent camping only) and a number of picnic areas, some with shelters, water and composting toilets, are available at various points in the rainforest adjacent to the road, and one picnic spot at Blackbutts Lookout, has extensive views to

Ngorongoro Crater
in Tanzania.

From a lookout in Border Ranges National Park, NSW Australia looking over the Tweed valley with The Pinnacle distinctive in the centre right.

See also

References

  1. ^
    NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service. Government of New South Wales
    .
  2. ISSN 1838-5958
    .
  3. Department of the Environment. Australian Government
    . Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  4. Department of the Environment. Australian Government
    . 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  5. ^
    ISBN 1-875992-47-2
    .
  6. ^ Big Volcano Visitor Guide, reprint of article by David Charley in Over The Fence, the Newsletter of the Northern Rivers Region, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Newsletter No.6, April 2000.
  7. ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Scenic Rim. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2014. on 2011-10-03.
  8. ^ "Spiders". Queensland Museum. The State of Queensland. Retrieved 30 October 2021.

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