Freycinet-Nationalpark

The Freycinet National Park (English Freycinet National Park ) is a national park on the eastern coast of the Australian state of Tasmania. He is known not only the rugged granite formations mainly by the named according to their shape Wineglass Bay.

Geography

The park is located mainly on the Freycinet Peninsula on the northeast coast of Tasmania, but also includes some more northerly parts coast and at the southern tip of the peninsula island with a Schouten. The nearest village is Cole's Bay, the nearest large city of Swansea.

Geology

The predominant rock type is granite from the Devonian, orthoclase feldspar and additionally give a characteristic pink hue. The west side of the island is composed of Jurassic dolerite Schouten.

History

In 1642 Abel Tasman sailed the Tasmanian east coast and named the island after a Schouten Director of the Dutch East India Company. The Freycinet Peninsula is named after the French navigator Louis de Freycinet, the (present day Tasmania ) explored under the command of Nicholas Baudin 1802/ 03 Van Diemen's Land. The first years of European settlement history in what is now National Park and the Great Oyster Bay were dominated by whaling as well as tin and coal mining.

The national park was founded on August 29, 1916 and is together with the Mount Field National Park, the oldest national park in Tasmania. Today, tourism is the single most important source of income.

Flora and Fauna

Bennett's Wallaby

Spring in Freycinet National Park