Hinchinbrook Island

The Hinchinbrook Island (English Hinchinbrook Iceland ) is a town on the Northern coast of Australia and the island belongs to the state of Queensland. The island is mostly a nature reserve and is home to the Hinchinbrook Iceland National Park one of the largest located on an island nature parks of Australia.

Geography

The Hichinbrook Island is approximately 400 square kilometers. It stretches over 50 kilometers along the coast of Queensland and is up to ten kilometers wide. In the northeast, a large peninsula goes off.

The island is located east of Cardwell and north of Lucinda and the deltas of the Herbert River. Hinchinbrook Iceland is one of the largest islands of the Great Barrier Reef and part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Apart from a small department, the entire island is a nature reserve.

The island is separated from the mainland by the Hinchinbrook Channel, which was created after the last ice age due to flooding of the valley of the Herbert River. The island itself is composed of rocks of the Paleozoic era, the 16- mile main pluton in the east of the island, the so-called Hinchinbrook granite from different hypersolvus granites, volcanics and granodiorites. The highest elevation is 1142 m, Mount Bowen. Further surveys are Mount Diamantina ( 955 m), Mount Straloch ( 922 m), Mount Pitt ( 722 m), Mount Burnett ( 655 m) and Mount Barra Castle ( 579 m).

On the mainland opposite the island of Hinchinbrook are the Girringun National Park, the Kirrama National Park, the Edmund Kennedy National Park and the Cardwell Ranges, a mountain which is part of the World Heritage Wet Tropics of Queensland. The so-called Great Green Way ( Big Green Corridor ) 'includes the coastal area of ​​the northern city of Cairns at the 350 km southern city of Townsville. Cardwell is located at the southern end of the Cassowary Coast and has a population of about 1350.

Flora and Fauna

The island is a nature reserve since 1932.

The various habitats offer many endangered animal species a home. The island is an important habitat for animals of the coastal lowlands such as the Rifftriel, the two-color fruit dove, and the saltwater crocodile. The waters around the island are inhabited by dugongs and Australian Stupsfinnendelfinen.