Croajingolong-Nationalpark
The Croajingolong National Park is a national park on the coast in the extreme east of the Australian state of Victoria, 427 km east of Melbourne. The park has an elongated shape and is in the south through the Tasman Sea, bounded on the west by the Bemm River and the east by the town of Mallacoota. The northern boundary consists of dense bushland and low hills.
The name probably comes from the aboriginal tribe of Krowathunkooloong, who lived in this area of Victoria.
Biosphere Reserve
The Croajingolong National Park and the adjacent Nadgee Nature Reserve in New South Wales form one of fourteen biosphere reserves in Australia. It includes ecosystems, essential habitat and gene pool also which are managed so that they are both protected and its resources for the conservation of the species can be used.. The park is about 80 km long and 20 km wide; covers an area of 875 km ². Popular camping sites are available at the Thurra River, on Mueller Inlet and on Wingan Inlet. 100 km along the park runs the Wilderness Coast Walk, a hiking trail that leads to beaches, reed colonies and wild, rocky promontory.
The Croajingolong National Park covers the sand patch Wilderness Area and includes the Cape Howe Wilderness Area and the Nadgee Nature Reserve - the latter already in New South Wales - at.
History
1770 James Cook discovered the first European to the east coast of Australia, and hence the area of today's Croajingolong National Park. The point of land Point Hicks he named after Zachary Hickes, that of Captain Cook's ship Endeavour lieutenant, who is said to have sighted Australia first. The English explorer George Bass had to go in 1797 because of a storm at the mouth of the River Wingan ashore and took the time to explore the area. In the 1830s the area around East Gippsland became more and more explored, so that in 1842 the first white settlers settled in Croajingolong.
The Aborigines who had lived there for 17,000 years of hunting, gathering and fishing, were gradually displaced. Although they tried to defend their country against the new settlers, but subject to the better weapons of the Europeans and the diseases brought them with you. Transport difficulties protecting the area from large-scale agriculture, and it was used mainly for fish and timber industry. When the area increasingly attracted tourists in the 20th century, the Croajingolong in 1979 officially declared a national park.
Popular cities in Croajingolong National Park
- Point Hicks and his lighthouse
- Tamboon Inlet, settlement in the park
- Spectacular sand dunes on Thurra River
- Elusive Lake near the Wingan Inlet
- Mount Everard.
- Rame Head, a cape
Towns and settlements near
- Mallacoota
- Genoa
- Cann River
- Bemm River
- Orbost
References
Cronin, Leonard: Key Guide to Australia 's National Parks, Australia, New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd, 1998.