Swain-Reefs-Nationalpark

The Swain Reefs National Park (English: Swain Reefs National Park ) is a national park in the eastern part of the Australian state of Queensland and the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef. It is located 703 ​​km north of Brisbane, 220 kilometers off the coast of Rockhampton.

Provincial nature

The National Park consists of small cays that together have a land area of ​​58 hectares and 1995 were designated as a national park.

Fauna

Nine of these islands with a total of 9 hectares form the '' Swain Reef Important Bird Area '', which was recorded by BirdLife International because there broods more than 1% of the worldwide occurrence of the roseate tern. A total of 25,000 of these species have been counted on the islands. In addition there are masks, and white-bellied dolt, silver head gulls, black-necked, soot, chinstrap, express, Rüppell and little tern, black ( Anous minutus) and brown Noddis ( Anous stolidus ) and Arielfregattvögel.

The nine Cays are the following:

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