• Source: Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)

Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. The national park was previously named Cape Melville National Park until it was renamed on 28 November 2013.




Geography


The park is 1,711 km northwest of Brisbane. Its main features are the rocky headlands of Cape Melville, granite boulders of the Melville Range and beaches of Bathurst Bay.
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. The park is home to a wide variety of plant communities, including mangroves, rainforests, heathlands, woodlands and grasslands. The average elevation of the terrain is 43 metres.




See also



Protected areas of Queensland




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar karya tentang Perusahaan Hindia Timur Belanda
• Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)
• Cape York Peninsula
• Howick Group National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)
• Juunju Daarrba Nhirrpan National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)
• Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)
• Flinders Group National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)
• Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna
• Cape Melville incident
• Marpa National Park
• Apudthama National Park