Wyrrabalong-Nationalpark

The Wyrrabalong National Park is a national park in the eastern part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It was created in 1991.

The park consists of two separate parts. The northern part covers about 480 acres between the towns of The Entrance and Norah Head and includes a substantial portion of land between the lagoon Tuggerah Lake and the sea and the islands of Iceland and Terilbah Pelican Iceland in the lagoon. The southern part comprises approximately 120 hectares of coast between Shelly Beach and Forresters Beach. The park is also the last major coastal rain forest is located in the central portion of the coast of New South Wales.

The slogan for the Wyrrabalong National Park is: " Wyrrabalong, it's where you belong ."

History

In the area of ​​today's national park formerly lived Aboriginesstämme the Darkinjung and Awabakal. The Darkinjung inhabited the southern part and the northern Awabakal. The first Europeans to have discovered the Tuggerah Lake, 1796. It was developed by David Collins, afterwards the Governor of Van Diemen's Land, who arrived with the First Fleet, discovered when he sought the escaped prisoner Mary Morgan, who is said to have lived with the Aborigines in the north of the Hawkesbury River.