Mount Banda Banda

Mount Banda Banda
Mount Banda Banda
	Mount Banda Banda photographed from Camerons Bluff
Highest point
Elevation	1,258 m (4,127 ft); AHD
Coordinates	31°9.62′S 152°26.31′E / 31.16033°S 152.43850°E
Geography
	Mount Banda Banda Location in New South Wales, Australia
Location	Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
Parent range	Great Dividing Range
Geology
Age of rock	Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian
Mountain type	Porphyry, Dacite, Sedimentary & Metamorphic rocks

Mount Banda Banda, a mountain of the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, is situated 320 kilometres (200 mi) from Sydney within the Willi Willi National Park. Banda Banda can be seen on the north-western horizon from Port Macquarie, as well as on the south-western horizon 39 km from the town of Kempsey. At 1,258 metres (4,127 ft) AHD ^[1] it is the highest mountain in the region.

Flora

The stands of

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.^[4]

Interesting eucalyptus plants occurring on the mountain include the

endangered shrub Zieria lasiocaulis only occurs at Willi Willi National Park.^[5] Another endangered plant on Mount Banda Banda is Grevillea guthrieana.^[6]

The summit of the mountain is remarkably flat, and covered in grasses and the Blue Mountains ash. The isolated occurrence of the Blue Mountains ash is noteworthy, as it is most often seen in the

Blue Mountains district, some 300 kilometres to the south west.^[7]

Cool temperate rainforest

The main tree species in the rainforest is the Antarctic beech. Associated species include

Orange berry is a common ground cover. Despite the impressive 40-metre canopy, the soil is only moderately fertile, being derived from porphyry.^[8] Rainfall on Mount Banda Banda is 2 metres per year,^[9] a very high amount for the otherwise arid Australian

continent.

Arboretum

In 1964, the New South Wales Forestry Commission planted various exotic conifers amidst the cool

Sierra redwood. The possibility of the spread of exotic seedlings into the natural rainforest is of concern.^[5]

Fauna

Rare fauna inhabiting Mount Banda Banda include the

rufous scrub-bird, which was described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being of "universally outstanding significance to science and conservation".^[3]^[10]^[11] The reptile and invertebrate fauna of the mountain are not yet comprehensively understood.^[5] However, as this Gondwana

rainforest is in good condition, future surveys should provide a valuable picture of the local ecology.

Gallery

Antarctic beech, at Mount Banda Banda
Yellow carabeen (left) and Antarctic beech (right) at Mount Banda Banda
Antarctic beech at Mount Banda Banda
Eucalyptus scias subsp. apoda at Mount Banda Banda
Blue Mountains ash near the summit of Mount Banda Banda
grassy area at 1250 metres above sea level
Nameplate at the summit of Mount Banda Banda, elevation 1258 metres
Soft corkwood at Mount Banda Banda
Featherwood at Mount Banda Banda
Drymophila moorei, an understorey plant at Mount Banda Banda
Anopterus growing under tall cool temperate rainforest at Mount Banda Banda
Mount Banda Banda seen from Bellangry Number One Fire Tower

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Werrikimbe & WilliWilli National Parks" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
^ "Mount Banda Banda". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
^
ISBN 0-7305-2075-7

^ "Search - The Encyclopedia of Earth". www.eoearth.org. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Willi Willi National Park Draft Plan of Management
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
ISBN 0-909605-62-9
Page 85 - Brooker & Kleinig

ISBN 0-949324-32-9. Retrieved 22 June 2009. (other publication details, included in citation)

^ NSW Forestry Commission pamphlet "Wilson River Reserve"

^ http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/parks/PomDraftWilliOct2008.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

^ "Gondwana Rainforests of Australia" (PDF). whc.unesco.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2015.

Further reading

Adam, Paul (1987). New South Wales Rainforests - The Nomination for the World Heritage List.
ISBN 0-7305-2075-7
.

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Mountains in New South Wales, Australia
Coastal mountain ranges
(not part of the
Great Dividing Range)
Mid North Coast

Middle Brother (554 m or 1,818 ft)

South Brother (487 m or 1,598 ft)

North Brother (476 m or 1,562 ft)

Allyn, Barrington
& Mount Royal

Brumlow Tops
(1,586 m or 5,203 ft)

Polblue
(1,575 m or 5,167 ft)

Barrington
(1,555 m or 5,102 ft)

Careys Peak (1,544 m or 5,066 ft)

Eremeren Point (1,537 m or 5,043 ft)

Royal (1,185 m or 3,888 ft)

Allyn (1,125 m or 3,691 ft)

Cabrebald (1,000 m or 3,281 ft)

Ben Bullen

Gunama

Lumeah

Gibraltar and Sugarloaf

Summit (1,170 m or 3,839 ft)

Sugarloaf (412 m or 1,352 ft)

Bulahdelah

Manning

Blue Mountains

Coricudgy (1,255 m or 4,117 ft)

unnamed peak (1,189 m or 3,901 ft)

Pomany (1,109 m or 3,638 ft)

Piddington (1,094 m or 3,589 ft)

Boyce (1,093 m or 3,586 ft)

York (1,061 m or 3,481 ft)

Victoria (1,059 m or 3,474 ft)

Banks (1,049 m or 3,442 ft)

Tomah
(1,016 m or 3,333 ft)

Wilson (1,008 m or 3,307 ft)

Kings Tableland (1,000 m or 3,281 ft)

Narrow Neck Plateau (1,000 m or 3,281 ft)

Bell (998 m or 3,274 ft)

Castle Cliff (986 m or 3,235 ft)

Solitary (950 m or 3,117 ft)

Hay (944 m or 3,097 ft)

Podgers (890 m or 2,920 ft)

Irvine (850 m or 2,789 ft)

Debert (840 m or 2,756 ft)

Camp Cave (800 m or 2,625 ft)

Warrigal (760 m or 2,493 ft)

Notts (750 m or 2,461 ft)

Harris (736 m or 2,415 ft)

Centre (620 m or 2,034 ft)

Hall (617 m or 2,024 ft)

Gibson (608 m or 1,995 ft)

Scorpion (558 m or 1,831 ft)

Linda Rock (599 m or 1,965 ft)

Cookem (569 m or 1,867 ft)

Gospers

Bedford

Cameron

Coriaday

Erskine

Mistake

Monundilla

Whaite

Wirraba

Pearces

Wedding Cake

Illawarra

Bells
(803 m or 2,635 ft)

Knights Hill (709 m or 2,326 ft)

Noorinan (663 m or 2,175 ft)

Saddleback (600 m or 1,969 ft)

Wanyambilli Hill (564 m or 1,850 ft)

Kembla (534 m or 1,752 ft)

Burelli (531 m or 1,742 ft)

Kembla West (512 m or 1,680 ft)

Brisbane (469 m or 1,539 ft)

Keira (464 m or 1,522 ft)

Warra (464 m or 1,522 ft)

Brokers Nose (440 m or 1,444 ft)

Nebo (252 m or 827 ft)

The Budawangs

Budawang (1,129 m or 3,704 ft)

Currockbilly (1,087 m or 3,566 ft)

Wog Wog (893 m or 2,930 ft)

Cole (876 m or 2,874 ft)

Sturgiss (858 m or 2,815 ft)

Fosters (857 m or 2,812 ft)

Barneys Hill (855 m or 2,805 ft)

The Castle (831 m or 2,726 ft)

Shrouded Gods (809 m or 2,654 ft)

Donjon (786 m or 2,579 ft)

Clyde (781 m or 2,562 ft)

Quiltys (775 m or 2,543 ft)

Wirritin (674 m or 2,211 ft)

Pigeon House / Didthul (720 m or 2,362 ft)

Bushwalker (640 m or 2,100 ft)

Byangee (500 m or 1,640 ft)

Coolangatta

Tarn

Great Dividing Range
Tweed

Warning (1,156 m or 3,793 ft)

Bar (1,130 m or 3,707 ft)

Glenugie (316 m or 1,037 ft)

Chincogan (260 m or 853 ft)

Gladstone

Goobergooberyam

Moombil

McPherson and Nightcap

Barney
(1,359 m or 4,459 ft)

Burrell 933 m or 3,061 ft)

Neville (919 m or 3,015 ft)

Nardi (812 m or 2,664 ft)

Matheson (804 m or 2,638 ft)

Peates (604 m or 1,982 ft)

Mid North Coast

Banda Banda (1,258 m or 4,127 ft)

Nandewar

Kaputar (1,489 m or 4,885 ft)

Dowe (1,457 m or 4,780 ft)

Mount Coryah (1,409 m or 4,623 ft)

Lindesay (1,373 m or 4,505 ft)

Grattai (1,301 m or 4,268 ft)

Bushy (1,260 m or 4,134 ft)

Round (1,250 m or 4,101 ft)

Yulludunida (1,225 m or 4,019 ft)

Castle Top (1,120 m or 3,675 ft)

Gins (1,120 m or 3,675 ft)

Ningadhun (1,013 m or 3,323 ft)

Liverpool and Watagan

unnamed (1,300 m or 4,265 ft)

Pandoras Pass (788 m or 2,585 ft)

Warrawolong (641 m or 2,103 ft)

New England and Moonbi

Round (1,585 m or 5,200 ft)

Point Lookout (1,564 m or 5,131 ft)

Ben Lomond (1,512 m or 4,961 ft)

Grundy (1,463 m or 4,800 ft)

Barren (1,437 m or 4,715 ft)

Hyland (1,434 m or 4,705 ft)

Duval (1,393 m or 4,570 ft)

Black Jack (1,300 m or 4,265 ft)

Gulligal (1,230 m or 4,035 ft)

Oaky (1,070 m or 3,510 ft)

Cooee (1,020 m or 3,346 ft)

Flaggy (984 m or 3,228 ft)

Big Billy (884 m or 2,900 ft)

Dorrigo (762 m or 2,500 ft)

Burning (520 m or 1,706 ft)

Yarrowyck

Central Tablelands

Canobolas (1,395 m or 4,577 ft)

Shooters Hill (1,394 m or 4,573 ft)

Bindo (1,363 m or 4,472 ft)

Trickett (1,362 m or 4,469 ft)

Blaxland (901 m or 2,956 ft)

Hopeless (1,056 m or 3,465 ft)

The Brindabellas and Scabby

Bimberi (1,913 m or 6,276 ft)

Gingera (1,857 m or 6,093 ft)

Kelly (1,829 m or 6,001 ft)

Ginini (1,762 m or 5,781 ft)

Franklin (1,646 m or 5,400 ft)

Aggie (1,421 m or 4,662 ft)

Coree (1,421 m or 4,662 ft)

Bramina (1,392 m or 4,567 ft)

Bulls Head (1,375 m or 4,511 ft)

Black Bottle (1,356 m or 4,449 ft)

Lickhole (1,188 m or 3,898 ft)

Brindabella (972 m or 3,189 ft)

Monaro

Big Badja (1,363 m or 4,472 ft)

Brown (1,243 m or 4,078 ft)

Gibraltar (Bungendore) (887 m or 2,910 ft)

Gibraltar Hill

Snowies
Main

Kosciuszko (2,228 m or 7,310 ft)

Townsend (2,209 m or 7,247 ft)

unnamed peak on Etheridge Ridge (2,180 m or 7,152 ft)

Alice Rawson Peak (2,160 m or 7,087 ft)

Byatts Camp (2,159 m or 7,083 ft)

Carruthers (2,145 m or 7,037 ft)

Abbott Peak (2,145 m or 7,037 ft)

Mount Northcote (2,131 m or 6,991 ft)

Muellers Peak (2,120 m or 6,955 ft)

Clark (2,100 m or 6,890 ft)

Lee (2,100 m or 6,890 ft)

Gungartan (2,068 m or 6,785 ft)

Tate (2,068 m or 6,785 ft)

Jagungal (2,061 m or 6,762 ft)

Perisher (2,054 m or 6,739 ft)

Stilwell (2,040 m or 6,693 ft)

Watsons Crags (2,020 m or 6,627 ft)

Back Perisher (2,014 m or 6,608 ft)

Anton (2,000 m or 6,562 ft)

Anderson (1,997 m or 6,552 ft)

Blue Cow (1,994 m or 6,542 ft)

The Granite Peaks (1,980 m or 6,496 ft)

Dicky Cooper Bogong (1,980 m or 6,496 ft)

Gills Knobs (1,940 m or 6,365 ft)

Guthega Peak (1,924 m or 6,312 ft)

Blue Calf (1,905 m or 6,250 ft)

Sentinel (1,900 m or 6,234 ft)

Mount Piper (1,830 m or 6,004 ft)

Round (1,756 m or 5,761 ft)

Ramshead

Rams Head (2,190 m or 7,185 ft)

Twynam (2,178 m or 7,146 ft)

Rams Head North (2,177 m or 7,142 ft)

Little Twynam (2,120 m or 6,955 ft)

Other mountains in the GDR

Yengo (668 m or 2,192 ft)

Inland mountain ranges
Barrier

Lewis Peak (297 m or 974 ft)

Warrumbungles

Exmouth (1,206 m or 3,957 ft)

Woorut (1,165 m or 3,822 ft)

Needle

Other inland mountains

Grenfell

Gibralter Hill

Island mountain ranges
Lord Howe

Gower (875 m or 2,871 ft)

Lidgbird (777 m or 2,549 ft)

Mountains not within
a specific range

Gibraltar (863 m or 2,831 ft)

Gulaga (806 m or 2,644 ft)

Ulandra (761 m or 2,497 ft)

Tilga (329 m or 1,079 ft)

Oxley (307 m or 1,007 ft)

Federal divisions

Cowper

Lyne

State electorates

Coffs Harbour

Myall Lakes

Oxley

Port Macquarie

Local government areas

Bellingen

Coffs Harbour

Kempsey

Nambucca Valley

Port Macquarie-Hastings

Greater Taree

Cities

Coffs Harbour

Port Macquarie

Towns / suburbs

Arakoon

Batar

Bellingen

Birdwood

Boambee

Bonny Hills

Bonville

Bostobrick

Bowraville

Camden Haven

Collombatti

Comboyne

Coopernook

Coramba

Corindi Beach

Crescent Head

Cundletown

Dorrigo

Ellenborough

Forster

Frederickton

Hannam Vale

Harrington

Hat Head

Herons Creek

Jerseyville

Karangi

Kempsey

Kendall

Kew

Kinchela

Kindee

Kolodong

Korora

Krambach

Kundabung

Lake Cathie

Lansdowne

Laurieton

Long Flat

Lowanna

Macksville

Manning Point

Mylestom

Nambucca Heads

Nana Glen

Newee Creek

New Entrance

North Haven

Oceanside

Old Bar

Park Beach

Raleigh

Repton

Sawtell

Scotts Head

Smithtown

South West Rocks

Taree

Taylors Arm

Telegraph Point

Thora

Toms Creek

Tinonee

Toormina

Tuncurry

Ulong

Urunga

Valla

Warrell Creek

Wingham

Woolgoolga

Wauchope

Rivers

Apsley

Barnard

Barrington

Bellinger

Bowman

Camden Haven

Cells

Christmas

Coolongolook

Cooplacurripa

Crawford

Dawson

Doyles

Ellenborough

Forbes

Georges

Hastings

Kalang

Kunderang

Lansdowne

Macleay

Manning

Maria

Mummel

Myall Lakes

Myall

Nambucca

Never Never

Nowendoc

Pappinbarra

Pipers

Ralfes

Rosewood

Rowleys

Smiths Lake

Stewarts

Taylors

Throne

Tobins

Walcrow

Wallamba

Wallingat

Wallis Lake

Wang Wauk

Williams

Wilson

Ranges and mountains

Banda Banda

Three Brothers

National parks / Nature reserves /
Important Bird Areas

Coocumbac Island Nature Reserve

Dooragan NP

Ellenborough Falls

Hastings-Macleay IBA

Hat Head NP

Kattang Nature Reserve

Limeburners Creek NP

Maria NP

Middle Brother NP

Sea Acres NP

Major tourist attractions

Big Banana

Billabong Zoo

North Coast Regional Botanic Garden

Willi Willi Caves

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mount_Banda_Banda&oldid=1155621861"

[midnorth-1] "Werrikimbe & WilliWilli National Parks" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2009.

[gnb-2] "Mount Banda Banda". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2013.

[rainforests-3] 
ISBN 0-7305-2075-7

[4] "Search - The Encyclopedia of Earth". www.eoearth.org. Retrieved 19 April 2018.

[nsw-5] Willi Willi National Park Draft Plan of Management

[6] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[7] ISBN 0-909605-62-9
Page 85 - Brooker & Kleinig

[Floyd1990Banda-8] ISBN 0-949324-32-9. Retrieved 22 June 2009. (other publication details, included in citation)

[9] NSW Forestry Commission pamphlet "Wilson River Reserve"

[10] ttp://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/parks/PomDraftWilliOct2008.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[11] "Gondwana Rainforests of Australia" (PDF). whc.unesco.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2015.

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Flora

Cool temperate rainforest

Arboretum

Fauna

Gallery

See also

References

Further reading