Porcupine-Gorge-Nationalpark

The Porcupine Gorge National Park (English Porcupine Gorge National Park ) is a 54 square kilometer national park in Queensland, Australia.

Location

It is located in the region of North Queensland and is located about 60 kilometers north of Hughenden and 385 kilometers west of Townsville. From the south on the unpaved Coming Kennedy Developmental Road, first branches off a two-kilometer long side road to Porcupine Gorge from lookout. Eleven kilometers north can be reached via the Emu Plains Road to the Pyramid campground.

In the vicinity of the national parks Blackbraes, White Mountains, and Great Basalt Wall Moorrinya lie.

Landforms

The 25 km long and only a few kilometers wide park follows the course of the Porcupine Creek and includes forest and grassland one on both sides open. The river has an impressive average of 120 meter deep gorge dug here by hundreds of million years old sedimentary rocks. In the wide parts of the canyon was created over time by erosion, a pyramid, a stand-alone monolith from multi-colored sandstone layers. This formation was only possible because had formed a thin but hard basalt surface layer by a lava flow above the sandstone five million years ago, which protects the underlying soft rock. In places where this top layer had been removed, the Porcupine Creek was deep dig into the sandstone. The deeper sediment layers from the Permian, which are cut in the canyon, belong to the Galilee Basin and contain coal seams of the Betts Creek Beds. The seams are explored outside the park on their Bauwürdigkeit.

Flora and Fauna

During the rainy season a thin trickle with numerous waterholes of the Porcupine Creek is a rushing stream, in the dry season which attracts a variety of animals, including threatened with extinction as dwarf Quoll and letters dove.

The flora is dominated by eucalypts, acacias, casuarinas Myrtenheiden and, besides, there are also rarer species like the Pink Gidgees (Acacia crombiei ).

656775
de