Brook-Islands-Nationalpark

The Brook Islands National Park (English: Brook Islands National Park ) is a national park in northeastern Australian state of Queensland.

Location

It is located 1246 km northwest of Brisbane and 30 km east of Cardwell 7 km off the northeastern tip (Cape Richards ) of Hinchinbrook Iceland. The park consists of three islands - North Iceland, Iceland Tween and Middle Iceland - with a total of 0.9 km ². The fourth island of the Brook Islands, South Iceland, does not belong to this national park, but forms its own National Park.

Facilities

The three islands may not be entered in order to protect the nesting birds there, especially the two-color fruit dove ( Ducula spillorhoa ). Therefore, there are no roads on the islands still trails or other facilities for tourists. In the sea around the islands can, however, boating, diving or fishing boat.

The National Park is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and has the IUCN classification II

Fauna

Up to 60,000 two-color fruit pigeons breed in summer on the islands. Every evening the return of the parent birds to their nests after collecting rain forest fruit on the mainland and Hinchinbrook Iceland is a spectacle for the observer. After the birds were there hunted illegally early to mid 20th century, the population is long already protected and observed by the environmental activists Margret and Arthur Thor Borne. There are also breeding colonies of Zügelseeschwalben, black-necked terns, little terns, Rüppellseeschwalben and roseate tern. Rifftriele nest on the beaches of North Iceland. The islands are maintained by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA ) because this area is one of the world's important for the two-color fruit dove and the Rüppellseeschwalbe.