Mitchell-River-Nationalpark (Western Australia)

The 1153 km ² Mitchell River National Park in the Kimberleyregion is located in Western Australia, Australia. The National Park is located 350 km north-east of Derby and 270 km north- west of Wyndham. The Mitchell Plateau in the Mitchell River National Park and the current flowing through him Mitchell River were named in 1921 by W. R. Eastman according to the Australian Prime Minister of Western Australia, Sir James Mitchell.

Park

The park can only be driven along the Mitchell Plateau tracks from the Kalumburu Road with four-wheel drive vehicles. He belongs to the Ngauwudu Management Area. The park is home to three Aboriginal People, the Worrora, Wunambal - Gaambera and Ngarinyin. The Mitchell waterfall and Surveyors Pool ( swimming pool ) are the most remarkable natural phenomena in the National Park. To 80 meters high to the Mitchell Falls Creek Mertens must be followed. From there you can be consulted on a marked hiking trail with rocks of Little Merten Falls, at the foot of a bath can be taken. The Surveyor pool is carved into a sandstone deposits. The pool with drinking water quality lies 24 km north of miners camps at Port Warrender Road. To him, you can only drive up to within 4 km with vehicles, the rest is on foot.

Flora and Fauna

The park has about 50 mammal species, 220 bird and 86 reptile and amphibian species as well as the saltwater crocodile and snake species such as Mulgaschlange ( Pseudechis australis ) and a Taipan kind. In the parkland eucalyptus trees and shrubs dominate.

Through the park flows the Mitchell River, which flows near Port Warrender in the Walmsley Bay, a secondary bay of the Admiralty Gulf, and in the Indian Ocean. The river digs through valleys of reddish sandstone and plunges over waterfalls along the Mitchell Plateau. In some areas of the plateau dwarf palms grow on red colored laterite.