Baw-Baw-Nationalpark

The Baw Baw National Park is a national park in the central Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, 111 kilometers east of Melbourne. It comprises the Baw Baw Plateau and Mount Baw Baw with his ski.

On the Baw Baw Plateau, there are several peaks, Mount Baw Baw, Mount Saint Gwinear, Mount Saint Phillack, Mount Erica and Mount Whitelaw. The plateau has subalpine character with meadows and weathered granite blocks, and each group of snow gums.

History

The name " Baw Baw " is in the language of the aborigines stand for " echo ", but it may also be that he, as noted on early maps, " Bo Bo " is what "large" means.

The area was first explored in 1860 by the German botanist Ferdinand von Mueller and settled in the 1880s and 1890s after the discovery of gold. In April 1979, the National Park was established. On November 7, 2008 he was inducted as one of eleven parks in the Australian Alps to the Australian National Heritage List.

Flora and Fauna

The typical subalpine vegetation of the area are grasses, heather and snow eucalyptus trees.

An endangered animal species in the National Park before the Giants Quoll, croissants Beutler, the frog species Litoria spenceri, Litoria verreauxii alpina and Philoria frosti that Skinkart Pseudemoia cryodroma and the fish species Galaxia olidus and Galaxiella pusilla. The highly endangered squirrel Beutler found in the fauna emblem of the State of Victoria will.

The special Baw Baw - berry, Wittsteinia vacciniacea, can be found on the plateau.

Activities

Today, the park is mainly used for skiing in winter and hiking in summer. Especially popular are the cross-country skiing, the downhill skiing, cross-country, the hiking, hunting, fishing, rafting, canoeing, picnics and enjoying the beautiful view from the streets of the park. The Australian Alps Walking Track runs through the park to its full length of Walhalla from north to the Alpine National Park. The section in the Baw Baw National Park, one can discover in just over three days.

Also for lovers of botany and geology, there is much to see. The highest elevation in the park is Mount Saint Phillack, a mountain on the Granitplateaumit 1566 m altitude.

On the Baw Baw Plateau, there is a popular ski tour of Mount Baw Baw over Mount Saint Phillack to Mount Saint Gwinear. There is even a volunteer mountain rescue, the ' St. Gwinear Ski Patrol '. On the weekends they patrol around Mount Saint Gwinear around. Thither they come from the other side of the plateau about the skiing at Mount Baw Baw. Another popular sport is Nordic skiing at Mount Baw Baw, which was introduced in 1972, including appropriate competitions and a ski school ..

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