Mount Worth State Park
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IUCN Category III (Natural Monument)
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 Mount Worth State Park
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| Nearest town/city | Warragul |
| Coordinates | 38°17′06″S 145°59′34″E / 38.28489947°S 145.992855°ECoordinates: 38°17′06″S 145°59′34″E / 38.28489947°S 145.992855°E |
| Area | 1,040 hectares (2,600 acres) |
| Established | 1978 |
| Managing authorities | Parks Victoria |
| Official site | Mount Worth State Park |
Mount Worth State Park is a state park in Victoria, Australia.[1][2][3] It is located 15 km south of Warragul in the western Strzelecki Ranges. It offers rainforest walking trails and scenic views of Gippsland as well as across the Latrobe Valley to the Great Dividing Range.
The wet, mountain rainforest of Mountain Ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching 300 years old), Blackwood and Mountain Grey Gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, Crimson Rosella, lyrebird and many others.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Mount Worth State Park", Official website (Parks Victoria), http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/mount-worth-state-park, retrieved 2012-01-29
- ^ "Mount Worth Park visitor guide", Park Notes (Parks Victoria), November 2011, http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/315612/Park-note-Mount-Worth-State-Park.pdf, retrieved 2012-01-29
- ^ Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database CAPAD08, Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Populations and Communities, Commonwealth of Australia, 2008, http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/nrs/science/capad.html, retrieved 2012-01-29
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