South-Bruny-Nationalpark
The South Bruny National Park (English: South Bruny National Park ) is a national park on the southern tip of Bruny Island Iceland off Tasmania, Australia. The park includes the entire coastline, consisting in large parts of cliffs and a part of the hinterland of the island and the lighthouse Cape Bruny. The highest point of the park is Mount Bruny with 504 meters.
Flora and Fauna
The majority of the vegetation of the park consists of sparse eucalyptus forests and heathland. Only a small part is made of real forests and temperate rainforest. In the protected parts of the sea there are extensive stocks of kelp seaweed.
In the park wallabies, possums, echidnas and Tasmanian short life inhabit the park. Wombats and Tasmanian devils are here but not native. Have done particularly well known Bruny Iceland albino wallabies, who due to lack of enemies proliferated on parts of the island.
- Bird species in the South Bruny National Park
Puffinus tenuirostris
Cap Plover
Tasmanienpanthervogel
In the National Park, all eleven endemic bird species occur in Tasmania. Fairy penguins cap plover and the Puffinus tenuirostris Sturmvogelart breed on the coast, the sooty shearwater breeding on Courts Iceland. In the dry eucalyptus forests of the Partridge Island of Tasmanpanthervogel, one of the smallest and most critically endangered species lives in Australia.
For R & D also all three species of snakes of Tasmania, the Common Tiger Otter Lowland Copperhead and the white-lipped snake Drysdalia coronoides On the shores of the Friars Islands larger deposits of the South African Seebärens can be observed.
Getting to the park and tourism
The park offers many hiking opportunities. On display there is this example, an old whaling station. In Adventure Bay and Jetty at Beach there are opportunities to swim. The Cloudy Bay is, according to their names, more suitable for experienced surfers.
Important testimony from the seafaring history of the island is the lighthouse at Cape Bruny, built by convicts in 1838. He was the longest -operated lighthouse in Australia and is now a cultural heritage of the National Park Authority is subject.