Nearest town or city Byron Bay Area 199 ha Established October 2001 | Website Arakwal National Park Phone +61 1300 361 967 | |
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Managing authorities See also Protected areas ofNew South Wales Management National Parks and Wildlife Service, The Arakwal National Park Management Committee Similar Cape Byron Light, Cape Byron, Broken Head Nature R, Lighthouse Road, Biamanga National Park | ||
Arakwal national park byron bay new south wales australia
Arakwal National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 624 km north of Sydney and 2 km south of Cape Byron, the most easterly point of mainland Australia. The nearest town is Byron Bay. The park protects an area of Wallum country, of coastal clay heaths behind Tallow Beach, providing habitat to numerous bird species and two native frog species, the Wallum Froglet (Crinia tinnula) and Wallum Sedge Frog (Litoria olongburensis), both of which are deemed vulnerable to extinction.
Traditionally the land of the Arakwal people, the park was proclaimed in 2001 after the Arakwal Indigenous community and the New South Wales state government reached a land use agreement. The Arakwal people are co-managers of the park.
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