Windjana Gorge National Park
Windjana Gorge National Park Western Australia | |
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![]() View from base of gorge | |
Nearest town or city | Derby |
Coordinates | 17°25′42″S 124°58′35″E / 17.42833°S 124.97639°E |
Established | 1971 |
Area | 20.5 km2 (7.9 sq mi)[1] |
Managing authorities | Department of Environment and Conservation |
Website | Windjana Gorge National Park |
See also | List of protected areas of Western Australia |
Windjana Gorge National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 1855 km northeast of Perth and 355 km east of Broome. Open during the dry season only - usually April to November (dates vary according to conditions).
The gorge has been carved by the Lennard River and is over 3 km long and about 100m wide with walls to a height of 30m in places. The rocks are part of the Napier Range, an ancient Devonian reef system that is over 375 million years old.[2][3] The rocks are the same as the ones found at Tunnel Creek and Geikie Gorge.[4]
The river flows freely through the gorge during the wet season but during the dry season (between May and September) it becomes a series of pools surrounded by trees and shrubs. Some of the vegetation found along the river banks include paperbarks, cadjebuts, native fig trees and leichhardt trees.[5]
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References
- ^ "Department of Environment and Conservation 2009–2010 Annual Report". Department of Environment and Conservation. 2010: 48. ISSN 1835-114X. Archived from the original on 11 January 2011.
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(help) - ^ "Australia's North West - National Park". 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ^ 1988 research into the gorge environment -"Research on a geological last frontier". The Canberra Times. Vol. 62, no. 19, 234. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 June 1988. p. 20. Retrieved 6 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Playford, Phillip E. (Phillip Elliott); Geological Survey of Western Australia; National Parks Authority of Western Australia; Playford, Phillip (1984), Geology of Windjana Gorge, Geikie Gorge and Tunnel Creek National Parks, National Parks Authority, retrieved 6 December 2018
- ^ "Windjana Gorge Tours". 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2010.