Blue-Mountains-Nationalpark
- World Heritage
- Blue Mountains National Park
The Blue Mountains National Park is a national park in the region of the Blue Mountains on the east side of the Great Dividing Range in the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately 80 km west of Sydney. The park is located on a plateau crossed by rivers and covers an area of 2470 km ². The highest point of the park is Mount Werong with 1215 m, the lowest forms of the Nepean River at 20 m. The park's name has its origin in the bluish, caused by the Eucalyptus trees and their essential oils atmospheric opacity.
The origin of the National Park goes back to planning, which provided a much larger than the range used today. In 1959, the Blue Mountains National Park was founded and in 2000 he received advanced protection status as part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
Two of the largest rivers of the park, Coxs River and the Wollondilly River, flowing into Lake Warragamba, the main source of drinking water for Sydney. The Blue Mountains are part of the Sydney Basin, a sedimentary basin, which consists of layers of up to 300 million year old sedimentary rocks. The mountains, which consist mainly of the rocks of the Narrabeen Group were highlighted by raising the western part of the basin from the basin. In recent geological time, large areas of the region were covered with volcanic basalt, which has since been removed by erosion mostly back and has left behind a series of individual peaks.
The Blue Mountains National Park is a northern and a southern split by the Great Western Highway and a number of villages that have been aggregated to the City of Blue Mountains, in two parts. The north is bordered to the north by the Bells Line of Road. Dominating here is the Grose Valley. In the southern part are the Jamison Valley and the Three Sisters and the Megalong Valley.
Wildlife and vegetation
In the open forests of the Australian echidna is relatively common. Probably still keep some koalas, which were in 1900 still common in this area, in the park on. Among the nocturnal and therefore difficult to be observed species include brushtail possum and various Gleithörnchenbeutler. The dense forests are also inhabited by bandicoots, Breitfußbeutelmäusen, Sumpfwallabys, Riesengleitbeutlern. The largest predator among the marsupials is the giant quoll, which is also inhabited mainly dense forests. The rainforests for example, offer ring marsupials and bats habitat. Especially in the more open areas where grasses and shrubs occur next to each other, live Nacktnasenwombats, Rotnackenwallabys, Mountain kangaroos and eastern gray kangaroos. The largest predator in the region is the dingo, a feral dog. In addition, foxes, cats, horses and cattle in the park occur which are not originally native, but sometimes have a negative impact on the local wildlife.
End of neats - Glen Trails
Pulpit Rock
Grey kangaroos