Mornington-Peninsula-Nationalpark

The Mornington Peninsula National Park, located in the south of the Australian state of Victoria, 77 km south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula.

The park is one of the most popular in Victoria, as in it and its neighboring parks Point Nepean National Park and Arthurs Seat State Park many natural attractions of the region are protected and so habitat was obtained for many wild animals. The park covers most of the southwest coast of the Mornington Peninsula.

Vegetation

On the coast there are beach grass, grassy, light forests, banksia forests, heathland, wetland forests and marshes.

Animal life

32 species of mammals, 167 species of birds, 22 species of reptiles, seven species of amphibians and two species of fish are in the National Park. Particularly noteworthy is a large population of eastern gray kangaroos in Greens Bush. Weißfüßige Schmalfuß Bag mice ( Sminthopsis leucopus ), bandicoots, black wallabies, honeyeaters, parrots and blauflüglige Plover ( Hooded Plover, Thinornis rubricollis ) can also be found.

History

Aborigines inhabited this coast for thousands of years. Even today, can be found with some shells Køkkenmøddinger.

Beginning of the 20th century, the Ocean Beach Reserve was built at Sorrento and created some trails and shelters. In 1975, the Cape Schank Coastal Park was built and made ​​in 1988 as " P'oint - Nepean National Park, an area at the Point Nepean was closed more than 100 years, open to the public. 1995, the park was divided and mainly to the Mornington Peninsula - National Park, while the historic grounds at Point Nepean was made for Point Nepean National Park in 2005.