Jardine-River-Nationalpark

The Jardine River National Park is a 2370 square kilometer national park in the far north of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia.

Location

The park is located about 900 kilometers north of Cairns and 200 kilometers northeast of Weipa. He can be reached by four wheel drive vehicles on the Peninsula Developmental Road and Telegraph Road. The Telegraph Road at the same time forms the western boundary of the park. 10 km after crossing the Jardine River branches off from a track in the eastern part of the park. In the south, bordering the park at the Heathlands Resources Reserve, in the north of the Jardine River Resources Reserves, together they form a nearly 4,000 -square-kilometer reserve, which is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service in collaboration with Aboriginal people.

Off the coast are the national parks Denham Group and Saunders Islands.

History

The Cape York Peninsula has for millennia been the home of Aboriginal people. In the area of the National Park, the groups of Atambaya, Angkamuthi, Yadhaykenu, Gudang and Wuthathi live. 1770 reached with James Cook became the first European to Cape York Peninsula by boat. Almost 80 years later explored Edmund Kennedy in 1848, for the first time on the land, the area is, but killed at Escape River in the north of the park. 1865 followed by the Jardine brothers, 1880, the geologist Robert Logan Jack, who met at Captain Billy Landing on a group of Aborigines.