Lamington-Nationalpark

The Lamington National Park (English Lamington National Park ) is located in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland on the border with New South Wales. The park was established in July 1915, and is one of the standing in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.

Geology

The landscape of the Lamington park is the result of geological changes that began in the Paleozoic era more than 225 million years ago, when the continent Pangea split into two continents, Laurasia and Gondwana in. 120 million years ago Gondwana broke. South America and Africa separated and then Madagascar and the Indian subcontinent. The Australian Plate collided in front of 65 to 70 million years ago on the Antarctic Plate and drifted northward. Small plate parts moving in an easterly direction, and it emerged New Zealand and New Caledonia.

While the Australian plate about 5 to 7 centimeters annually drifted northward, she moved over a hotspot. About the Hotspot drifted the area of Lamington before 20 to 23 million years ago. Volcanoes emerged as the focal peak in the vicinity of Mount Barney. The Focal Peek was later covered by the lava of a large volcano, which was located above the present Mount Warning. Numerous eruptions occurred and lava flowed into the area of Lismor in New South Wales to the south and tambourine in the north. In the area around Binna Burra to volcanic ash could settle on the rhyolite rock. Erosion of lava that fertile soil, while the eroded from rhyolite soils are less fertile. As the volcanic activity ceased, water flowed over the resulting rock that burrowed into the surface and it emerged waterfalls, deep gorges, different peaks and craggy rocks.

Today, the consequences of geological change are largely under vegetable green. Tamborine, Springbrook, Beechmont and Lamington form the relics of the northern flank of a volcano. The rim appears as a remnant on Mount Warning. The Tweed Valley, which was created by strong erosion, shows the remains of a weathered caldera in the eastern flank of the ancient volcano. The southern cliffs of Lamington sit down to New South Wales in a big circle and continues to mark the end of the volcanic crater.

Flora and Fauna

The about 206 km ² National Park is the largest subtropical rainforest in Australia. There are over 500 waterfalls and lush sub-tropical flora and fauna. Especially great are here, the occurrence of Pennant Parrots, King Parrots and Yellow-eared cockatoos.

It is named after Charles Cochrane -Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington.