Flinders-Chase-Nationalpark

The Flinders Chase National Park is a National Park on Kangaroo Island south of Adelaide in South Australia. The park has a size of 326 km ² and is divided into the three areas of Cape du Couedic and Rocky River, gutter country and the Cape Borda Lighthouse in the west of the island. Founded in the park in 1919. The nearest town is Kingscote, about 110 km away.

The main attractions of the park are the bizarre rock formations of Remarkable Rocks, the colonies of fur seals at Admirals Arch, and the lighthouse at Cape Borda from 1858. Moreover, numerous kangaroos and koalas are found in the park.

Wildlife

On the coasts of New Zealand fur seals parks, Australian fur seals and sea lions Australian occur. Conspicuous land mammals are kangaroos, which are represented by two species. On the one hand by a special island subspecies of the Western Grey kangaroos and secondly by the Derbywallaby. A purely endemic Landsäugetierart the island, which occurs nowhere else, is the Kangaroo Island Schmalfußbeutelmaus. At other mammals, koalas, platypus, ring Beutler, Fuchskusus, Small Short bandicoot ( Isodon oesulus obesulus ), Tasmanian sleep Beutler, thin tail - sleep Beutler, swamp rats come (Rattus lutreolus ), also a subspecies of the bush rat (Rattus fuscipes greyi ) and a special island subspecies of the Pink-footed hedgehog before. In addition, eight bat species live in the park. The koalas, platypus and ring Beutler have been introduced by the Australian mainland. The number of koalas has increased so much in recent years that many eucalyptus forests were severely damaged. The National Park Service is trying to master with sterilization programs of the situation. In the National Park some species also occur that do not belong to the original Australian fauna. These are goats, deer, pigs, domestic cats, black rats and house mice.

The Kangaroo Island Emu was once endemic to the island, but is extinct in the 19th century. Reptiles are represented by Rosenberg's goanna, dwarf copper head, Black Tiger Otter, Streifenflossenfuß, various skinks, geckos and agama ( Ctenophorus decresii ). Six species of frog in the park at home.

On the coasts of the leatherback turtle is found.

Bush fire

On 6 December 2007 lightning ignited a brush fire in the bush burned 19,542 acres in the national park. This corresponds to 60 % of the total. Nature is already doing retake the burned area.

Short -beaked Echidna

A landscape of coastal

Bushland in the National Park