Cape-Le-Grand-Nationalpark

The 316 km ² Cape Le Grand National Park, Western Australia is 56 km away from the town of Esperance.

The park is named after Le Grand, a ship's officer on the L' Esperance, a ship with which the French Admiral d' Entrecasteaux Joseph Bruny 1792 Search Archipelago through her. Matthew Flinders came to this area in 1802 and named the Bay Lucky Bay, in which he sought shelter from a storm. The Rossiter Bay named Edward John Eyre in 1841, after he reached Captain Rossiter of the vessel crossing the Mississippi to Nullaborwüste. The name of the Mississippi Hill also goes back to Eyre.

The Park of the upstream waters and islands are part of the research Archipelago, a nature reserve. The Cape Arid National Park, which adjoins the Cape Le Grand National Park is located to the east. Both parks are grouped together for Recherche Archipelago Nature Reserve.

The inland of the park is dominated by sand fields and individual water holes. On the sands typical of this area grasses grow. Furthermore, grow and bloom the evergreen banksia bushes there. The park, fishing in the tourist, hiking or off-road driving, can be achieved by Lucky Bay with normal road vehicles, where there is also a picnic and camping area with the white sand beach. Numerous beaches, such as Rossiter Bay, Hellfire Bay, Le Grand Beach, Orlean Bay Israelite Bay to be visited by tourists. In the Israelite Bay are the ruins of an old telegraph and a weather station.

In the national park mountains of granite and gneiss as the 345 -meter-high Mount Le Grand, the 180 -meter-high Mississippi Hill and the 262 -meter high Frenchman Peak, a conical mountain uplift.

Mount Le Grand from Frenchmans Peak

Look at the Frenchmans Peak