Clump-Mountain-Nationalpark

Clump Mountain National Park (English: Clump Mountain National Park ) is a national park in northeastern Australian state of Queensland.

Location

It is located 1287 km northwest of Brisbane and 38 kilometers south of Innisfail.

Landforms

The highest elevation in the park is the Bicton Hill, a steep eastward and westward gently sloping, low hill, which served both the Aboriginal and the first European settlers as a lookout. The first settlers from England named the hill to her home in Devon.

Flora and Fauna

In the park one can still find remnants of the tropical coast rainforest that covered the entire lowland earlier in the Wet Tropics.

The area of the park is therefore one also for Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, which was designated by BirdLife International. It offers, for example, the Southern Cassowary, an endangered Laufvogelart which occurs only in the rainforests of New Guinea and Queensland, a habitat.

Culture

In the country, which accounts for the National Park today, for thousands of years lived Aboriginesstamm the Djiru. The nearby Bingil Bay was a favorite resting place of the Aborigines. From the plants of the rainforest they made nets, houses, tools, weapons, and even medicine.

Facilities

There is a 3.9 -kilometer trail around the Bicton Hill. There you can study the plants of the rainforest and also sees the occasional Southern Cassowary.

The Bingil Bay Road leading from the settlement Mission Beach 4.6 km north to the park entrance. Mission Beach is accessible from the Bruce Highway (exit El Arish ) from.