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Moresby Range National Park

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Nearest town or city
  
Innisfail

Established
  
1973

Area
  
2.79 kmĀ²

Moresby Range National Park

Managing authorities
  
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service

See also
  
Protected areas of Queensland

Address
  
Coquette Point QLD 4860, Australia

Management
  
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service

Similar
  
Maria Creek National, Ella Bay National Park, Grey Peaks National Park, Three Islands National, Barnard Island Group Na

Moresby Range is a national park in Far North Queensland, Australia, 1,314 km northwest of Brisbane. It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.

The national park is located on the coast south of the mouth of the Johnstone River a few km from Innisfail in the Cassowary Coast Region. The range reaches elevations of around 160 m above sea level. It belongs to the Wet Tropics biogregion and lies within the Johnstone River water catchment. About 8% of the park is classed as wetlands.

The Spectacled flying fox is the only rare or threatened species to have been identified in the park. In 2010, five cassowaries which inhabit the park were tagged with GPS dataloggers with VHF transmitters to enable monitoring of their movement.

References

Moresby Range National Park Wikipedia