Dalrymple-Nationalpark
The Dalrymple National Park (English Dalrymple National Park ) is a 16.6 square kilometer national park in Queensland, Australia.
The name derives from the National Park the explorer George Dalrymple was ( 1826-1876 ).
Location
It is located in the region of North Queensland and is 65 kilometers south-west of Townsville and 40 kilometers north of Charters Towers. From the Gregory Developmental Road branches off at the height of Fletcher Creek Crossing from an unpaved road, after 2.5 km you reach the park entrance. In the rainy season from November to March, the road is sometimes closed.
In the neighborhood of the National Park Pinnacles and Great Basalt Wall lie.
History
Remains of the ancient city Dalrymple can be visited on the west bank of the Burdekin River. Built in 1864, it was the first city in the interior of the former British colony of North Australia. With the discovery of gold at Cape River in 1867 and at the Gilbert River in 1869, the city grew from a simple camp to a thriving city with five hotels and shops. However, in 1870 a flood destroyed much of the city, this and other gold discoveries near Ravenswood and Charters Towers made for the decline. 1901, 34 years after the founding of the city, witnessed only a few relics, such as cemetery, fences and old mine shafts, of their existence.
Landscape
The Dalrymple National Park was established to important geological formations that have emerged 2.4 million years ago to protect. In the immediate vicinity you will find here basalt, limestone and sandstone. North of the Burdekin River, the 380 -meter-high Mount Keelbottom rises 130 meters above the surrounding plains. Southwest of the river are three lava flows, the youngest goes back to the eruption of the volcano Toomba 13,000 years ago, the two older layers can be dated back to 1.3 million and 2.4 million years. Some of the streams in the park, such as the Fletcher and Lolworth Creek have dug deep through the different layers of rock. How to find in some places basalt columns along one bank of the stream, on the other 385 million years old coral limestone with numerous fossils from the Devonian.