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Iron Range National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Iron Range is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 1940 km northwest of Brisbane. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iron_Range_National_Park   (58 words)

Iron Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Iron Range Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Board (IRRRB), sometimes known simply as Iron Range Resources, is an economic development agency funded partly by taxes levied by the state on taconite-producing companies and charged with creating jobs. "The Range", as it is known by locals, is a region with multiple distinct bands of iron ore, of which the Mesabi Range is by far the largest. The far eastern area, along the shore of Lake Superior, and the far northern area, along the Canadian border, of the region are not associated with iron ore mining, and are collectively referred to as the Arrowhead region of the state. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iron_Range   (583 words)

Lync-Haven Rainforest Retreat Rokeby National Park: This park stretches from the foothills of the McIllwraith Range between the Archer and Coen Rivers. Jardine National Park: This park covers most of the catchment of the largest perennial stream in Queensland, with a variety of vegetation type including Rainforest, open-forest, heath and shrub land with a corresponding variety of Fauna. Lakefield National Park: Extensive examples of Peninsula country vegetation from Rainforest, Stringy bark Forest and Paperback Woodland to Mangroves with mud flats, open grassy plains and swamps, are located in this park. www.lynchaven.com.au /tour6.htm   (769 words)

qnp37.txt IRON RANGE NATIONAL PARK Iron Range National Park on far northern Cape York Peninsula is of world significance. The park's western area is dominated by the rugged hills of the Janet and Tozer Ranges. CARING FOR NATIONAL PARKS Care must be taken to preserve the wilderness values of this remote park. www2.eis.net.au /~nqtds/infocomm/qnp37.txt   (735 words)

The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1 December 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections. A national unity government was installed in April of 1997, but serious fighting resumed in late 1998, rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Presently the island is a National Wildlife Refuge run by the US Department of the Interior; a day beacon is situated near the middle of the west coast. www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html   (15472 words)

Bicycle journey '95: Australia / Cape York Peninsula The Iron Range NP is the biggest lowland - rain forest of Australia. Most of the surrounding area is part of the Jardine River National Park. Camping, Caravan Park and a Lodge are nearby. www.bicycletraveller.de /95rd/qld/index_e.htm   (807 words)

Queensland's National Parks These two neighboring parks cover drier woodlands between McIlwraith Range and the Archer River. A large rainforest park with rivers, gorges and waterfalls. A 6.5km circuit track begins at the lake's edge below the car park and passes two exceptionally large kauri pines, a tree which dominated Tableland forests for thousands of years. www.npaq.org.au /Parks/farnorth.html   (456 words)

Page Not Found - /parks/iaparks/gds/IAENQ010.jsp - EPA/QPWS Researchers can apply for a permit to undertake research on a national park.Because national parks are managed to protect their natural condition, permission to alter that natural environment in any way is not given lightly. Queensland’s national parks and forests sample the state´s best scenery and incredible natural diversity, provide homes for native wildlife and protect special historic sites and indigenous cultural places. Wallaman Falls, Girringun National Park, is located 51km south-west of Ingham in Queensland. www.epa.qld.gov.au /parks/iaparks/gds/IAENQ010.jsp   (705 words)

Karijini National Park: Park of the Month - August 1996 Karijini (formerly Hamersley Range) National Park is the second largest national park in WA. In the north of Karijini National Park, small creeks hidden in the rolling hillsides—dry for most of the year—suddenly plunge into sheer-sided chasms up to 100 metres deep. He named the Hamersley Range, on which the park is centred, after his friend Edward Hamersley. www.calm.wa.gov.au /national_parks/previous_parks_month/karijini.html   (1089 words)

Dive The Reef - Oz Tours Safaris - 12-Day Cape York Overland/Air Camping Safari Driving the road to Iron Range is an adventure in itself, and once there you’ll find a pocket of Tropical Rainforest that, due to it’s isolation, is untouched. In addition to the Iron Range area, this safari ranges over the entire Cape York Peninsula, visiting, and often camping at most of the outstanding features of the area. The Park is home to a number of unique species found nowhere else on earth. www.divethereef.com /AdventureTripDetail.asp?DTRIdx=-817019213   (476 words)

Cape York Accommodation - Portland House - Beachfront holiday home in Cape York, Australia Spend hours, days or weeks bird watching in the Iron Range National Park, Chili beach and the Portland Roads area. Portland House was created as a comfortable holiday home from which families can explore the magnificent Iron Range National Park and the Great Barrier Reef. Portland House is a great base from which to explore the unique region of Cape York in Tropical North Queensland, Australia. www.portlandhouse.com.au   (319 words)

Iron Range National Park - EPA/QPWS Iron Range is an important wildlife refuge and home to many unusual wildlife species such as the eclectus parrot, palm cockatoo, southern cassowary, fawn-breasted bowerbird, red-bellied pitta, green python and spotted cuscus. Iron Range was a staging post for thousands of American troops during World War II. Access to the park is along the Portand Roads Road which leaves the Peninsula Development Road 35 km north of the Archer River Roadhouse. www.epa.qld.gov.au /projects/park/index.cgi?parkid=195   (503 words)

Purnululu National Park: Park of the Month - July 1997 The Bungle Bungle Range, in Purnululu National Park, is one of the most fascinating geological landmarks in Western Australia. The turn-off to the park is 250 km south of Kununurra or 109 km north of Halls Creek. As you sweep further over the range a hidden world of gorges and pools is revealed, with fan palms clinging precariously to walls and crevices in the rocks. www.calm.wa.gov.au /national_parks/previous_parks_month/purnululu.html   (1073 words)

Cape York and Northern Australia The rugged mountains of Iron Range are cloaked in luxuriant rainforest that stretches down to the sea. There are 200 species of butterfly at Iron Range, including 11 butterflies found nowhere else in Australia. At 350 square kilometers McIlwraith Range is the largest tropical-rainforest wilderness in Australia. www.wilderness.org.au /capeyork/heritage_rainforests.shtml   (507 words)

Gulf Savannah Regions Of Northern Australia - Cape York Peninsula The rainforest isolated in Iron Range National Park and at the tip of Cape York shows a mix with more recent species that evolved in south east Asia and migrated. Emus are found throughout the region; the cassowary is found in the rainforests south of Cooktown and in the Iron Range area. Heaviest rain falls from January onwards; ranges from an annual average of 800 mm in the south to 2400 mm in the north www.savannah-guides.com.au /page2-9.html   (1726 words)

WILD COCKATOOS The Iron Range Park is predominantly rainforest, and lies thirteen degrees South of the Equator. It was a good time to visit, the Australian dollar was at an all-time low.The nearest large town to the Iron Range Park is Cairns, tourist centre of the North. The main target of our journey, the Palm Cockatoo, is to be found in the Iron Range Park and the Jardine River area to the North. freespace.virgin.net /susan.armitage/COCKATOO.HTM   (3680 words)

ASBESTOS RANGE NATIONAL PARK Asbestos Range National Park is so named because copper, asbestos, iron and gold were all mined in small quantities around the edges of the mountain range at about this time. Asbestos Range was declared a national park in 1976 because of its unique coastal heathlands, its importance as a habitat for native animals and its recreational value. Farming occurred on the Western Side of the range and after 140 years as a farm 'Springlawn' was purchased by the government in 1974. www.view.com.au /overviews/asbestos.htm   (228 words)

RWP Zoo : Green Tree Python The green tree python is found only in the vicinity of the Iron Range National Park in northern Australia. Range: Northern Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands. Here they are found on the east coast of the Cape York Peninsula and scattered in small lowland rainforests east of the Sir William Thompson and the Mellwraith mountain ranges. www.rogerwilliamsparkzoo.org /what_to_see/australasia/australasia_green_python.cfm   (374 words)

CYPLUS LUP Areas of Conservation Significance on Cape York Peninsula: Chapter 14 Butterflies From the records of Valentine and Johnson (1985) there are at least 200 species of butterflies known from the Iron Range area and these represent a high proportion of each of the families. Despite the attention of numerous entomologists over the years many species known from Iron Range remain poorly understood with regard to either habitat requirements or life history details. It should also be noted that even the western part of the McIlwraith Range is poorly studied and the main range itself has been rarely visited by any entomologists. www.ea.gov.au /sdd/erin/cyplus/lup/chapter14.html   (2620 words)

Tropical Savannas CRC - Cape York - Fire: Monitoring Vegetation Change Rainforest in and around Iron Range National Park in far north Queensland is expanding into the grasslands—a result of restricted burning over the last half century. Overlaid digitised boundaries of rainforest in Iron Range National Park showing the expansion of the forest area. Aerial photography’s fine resolution makes it useful for monitoring this long-term vegetation change; photographs for the Iron Range National Park area are available for 1943, 1970 and 1991. savanna.ntu.edu.au /information/cy/monitoring_vegetation_change.html   (235 words)

Birdwatching Trip Report from Australia VARIED TRILLER (Lalage leucomela) - 2 at Iron Range on 28/6 and 1 at Fergusson River on 11/7. We walked from the car park down the steep track to the picnic area but could not find any Rock Warblers and after about half an hour around the picnic area it was still the same negative result. This location is outside the normal range of the species but as with other nomadic species they could and do get seen almost anywhere, within reason. www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/australia/australia/austral.htm   (15454 words)

AusEmade: National Parks, Reserve and Wildlife, Queensland (QLD), Australia Visit our National Parks home page for information on National Parks organisations throughout Australia. Park Fees: The park fees comprise a daily vehicle entry fee, and a camping fee per person per night. A special thank you to the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service for assistance with sourcing information. www.ausemade.com.au /qld/destination/nationalparks.htm   (372 words)

All-inclusive 8 Day Birding Tour through Cape York, Iron Range, Mt Carbine, Lakefield, Laura Iron Range is one of the most famous birding sites in Australia. Today we will bird Iron Range in search of the more difficult species that may have eluded us. This morning we bird the tropical rainforest and woodlands around Iron Range. www.cassowarytours.com.au /cape-iron.html   (647 words)

MSN Encarta - Related Items - Australia , island and national park of Australia, off the southeastern coast of the state of Tasmania in the Pacific Ocean. encarta.msn.com /related_761568792_36.17/Maria_Island.html   (47 words)

Cairns.infotower.com: Cooktown & Cape York There are 3 more National Parks to come: Mungkan Kandju National Park, Iron Range National Park and Jardine River National Park. It is with 537,000-hectare Queensland's second largest National Park. On your way up to Cape York you pass Lakefield National Park. cairns.infotower.com /cooktown_and_cape_york.htm   (187 words)

Links Portland Roads CAPE YORK is located next to the unique Iron Range National Park and overlooks the Great Barrier Reef. Kingfisher Park is located in Julatten a small rural community between Mossman and Mt Molloy township one and a half hours drive North of Cairns. Red Mill House, an historic queenslander, set in beautiful tropical gardens, attractive to many birds, is in the heart of Daintree Village, and close to the magnificent Daintree River. www.cassowary-house.com.au /links.htm   (289 words)

Submission No:383 This case describes a wagtail observed at the Pascoe River Crossing, 58km NE of the Peninsula Development Road going into Iron Range National Park, QLD. users.bigpond.net.au /palliser/barc/case383.html   (220 words)

Bill Peach Journeys - Total Luxury Australia On arrival travel throughout the untouched landscapes of the World Heritage listed Cape Range National Park. Experience spectacular aerial 'flightseeing' over the ancient landscapes of the Bungle Bungle Range and Karijini National Park Kakadu National Park is home to the most outstanding concentration of Aboriginal art and history in Australia and is enclosed within Western Arnhem Land. www.totalluxuryaustralia.com /53/13.shtml   (876 words)

Northern Endemics Bird Tour Birdwatching North Iron Range is our first destination, and this National Park is one of the important birding locations in Australia. We then travel south and spend some time around Musgrave and Lakefield National Park, where Black- backed Butcherbird, Golden-shouldered Parrot, Star Finches and many more are the highlights, plus a chance to see the Red Goshawk, Australia's rarest Raptor. Lakefield National Park has numerous lagoons and rivers, which adds different birds to the bird list. www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/3819.html   (878 words)

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