Mount-Hypipamee-Nationalpark
The mount Hypipamee National Park is located in Queensland, Australia, 25 kilometers south of Atherton, 15 kilometers from Malanda and 115 km from Cairns. This national park is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, registered in the list of UNESCO world heritage since 1988.
Aboriginal
In the area of Mount Hypipamee National Park, the Aborigines of Ngadjonji and Jirrbal lived. In the ideas of the Dreaming of Ngadjonji that expressed the painter Warren Canendo in an image, created the Rainbow Serpent, the four adjacent Maare near Lake Eacham, Lake Barrine, Lake Euramoo and the crater lake of Mount Hypipamee ( Naypa Naypami ). In their performances, the lakes are to be connected by underground passages, which could not be confirmed after dives.
Geology and Geography
In the center of the national park is a 82-meter deep crater, which was created by a gas explosion. When the explosion occurred, she smashed the existing granite rock layer and hurled rock fragments through the air, while only small parts of volcanic material leaked to the surface. Today the crater is filled with a lake fed by rainwater diameter of about 70 meters.
The peak of Mount Hypipamee situated at an altitude of just over 1,000 meters above sea level.
Flora and Fauna
The national park is home to two different forms of vegetation. In the higher areas around the parking lot and on the trail to the crater, it is moist and cool: There are growing rainforest plants. In contrast, the vegetation changes to the reddish soils from weathered basalt between the rainforest and dry, open woods.
In Mount Hypipamee National Park were brushtail possum ( Trichosurus vulpecular ), lemurs Ring Beutler ( Hemibelideus lemuroids ) Dactylopsila trivirgata, Sugar Glider ( Petaurus breviceps ), Riesengleitbeutler ( Petauroides volans ) and Zwerggleitbeutler ( Acrobates pygmaeus ) were observed; occasionally the Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo ( Dendrolagus lumholtzi ).
From the avifauna are worth mentioning the bush chicken ( Alectura lathami ), gold ear - honey -eater ( Meliphaga Lewinii ) Lichenostomus frenatus, Victoria Bird of Paradise ( Ptiloris victoriae ), columns Gardener ( Amblyornis newtonianus ) Ailuroedus melanotis and dental Bowerbird ( Scenopoeetes dentirostris ).
Victoria Bird of Paradise
Sugar Glider
Riesengleitbeutler
Tourism
From the parking lot of a 400 m long trail leading to the crater lake. It ends on a platform that allows a view of the crater lake. An alternative return route takes you over the dinner Falls, a series of cascades in the Barron River. In the park camping is not allowed.