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Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) Queensland | |
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IUCN category II (
national park) | |
Nearest town or city | Cooktown |
Coordinates | 15°04′09″S 145°07′23″E / 15.06917°S 145.12306°E |
Established | 1973 |
Area | 4.17 km2 (1.6 sq mi) |
Managing authorities | Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service |
See also | Protected areas of Queensland |
Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in Queensland, Australia. It is 1,602 km northwest of Brisbane. The national park was previously named Mount Webb National Park until it was renamed on 28 November 2013. [1]
The national park features a number of unique and threatened ecosystems including rare examples of complex rainforest vegetation communities developed upon Basalt soils within the Cape York Peninsula bioregion. [2] [3]
Rainforest communities located within the national park include:
An additional threatened ecosystem located within the national park is a sclerophyll woodland dominated by Eucalyptus leptophleba, Corymbia tessellaris and Corymbia clarksoniana which has developed upon soils formed from basalt flows. [2]