Английская Википедия:Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Infobox Australian place Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.[1] The national park was previously named Cape Melville National Park until it was renamed on 28 November 2013.[2]
Geography
The park is 1,711 km northwest of Brisbane.[3] Its main features are the rocky headlands of Cape Melville, granite boulders of the Melville Range and beaches of Bathurst Bay.[4]
The national park was the site of a 2013 National Geographic scientific expedition which discovered three new species. These were the Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko, Cape Melville shade skink and the Blotched boulder-frog.[5] The park is home to a wide variety of plant communities, including mangroves, rainforests, heathlands, woodlands and grasslands.[6][7] The average elevation of the terrain is 43 metres.[8]
See also
References
Шаблон:Far North Queensland Шаблон:National Parks of Queensland
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