Nearest town or city Cooktown Established 1973 | Area 1,370 km² | |
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Managing authorities Website Cape Melville National Park See also Protected areas of Queensland Address Starcke QLD 4895, Australia Management Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service | ||
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Cape Melville is a national park in Queensland, Australia, located 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.
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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.
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Cape Melville National Park Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA