Curtain Fig National Park
| Curtain Fig National Park Queensland | |
|---|---|
  Curtain Fig National Park | |
| Nearest town or city | Yungaburra |
| Coordinates | 17°16′57″S 145°34′22″E / 17.28250°S 145.57278°E |
| Established | 28 November 2008 |
| Area | 1.95 km2 (0.753 sq mi) |
| Visitation | 100 000 per year |
| Managing authorities | Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service |
| Website | Curtain Fig National Park |
| See also | Protected areas of Queensland |
The Curtain Fig National Park is a national park on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. The National Park is located near Yungaburra.[1] It's most valued features are it's once regionally common, now endangered Mabi forests including a huge strangler fig which attracts 1000's of visitors per year, locally known as the Curtain Fig Tree, plus a near threatened, locally endemic tree-kangaroo species ie the Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo which finds refuge inside this protected area[2]
Geology
Curtain Fig National Park lies within an area where, more than 350 000 years ago, volcanic activity erupted basalt from seven vents, forming the seven cinder cones[3] locally known as the Seven Sisters surrounding the National Park, locally known as the Seven Sisters. The eruptions of basalt from the Seven Sisters were responsible for the large basalt boulders littering the floor of the National Park[1] plus the whole area's rich, fertile soils.[3]
Flora
This National Park's fertile basalt soil now grows locally endemic, endangered upland semi-evergreen notophyll vine forest on basalt known as Mabi forest interspersed with two other endangered regional ecosystems, namely some open woodland with associated sedge, plus some open forest with associated grasslands.[2]
The National Park protects a fragmented endangered remnant of the once much more prominent, heavily cleared Atherton Tablelands' Mabi forests including near threatened Lacewood (Firmiana papuana) and pink leaf haplostichanthus (Haplostichanthus)[4], plus vulnerable warratah (Alloxylon flammeum) and red-fruited sauropus (Sauropus macranthus) trees.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Curtain Fig National Park". Queensland Government Parks and Forests. Queensland Department of Environment & Science. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ a b Queensland Department of National Parks; Recreation; Sport and Racing (June 2013). Yungaburra and Curtain Fig national parks Management Statement 2013 (Report). State of Queensland.
{{cite report}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|authors=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Whitehead, P. W.; Stephenson, P. J.; McDougall, I.; Hopkins, M. S.; Graham, A. W.; Collerson, K. D.; Johnson, D. P. (2007). "Temporal development of the Atherton Basalt Province, north Queensland". Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (5): 691–709. doi:10.1080/08120090701305236. ISSN 0812-0099.
- ^ "Haplostichanthus". WetlandInfo. Queensland Department of Environment and Science. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
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