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Clarke Range
The Clarke Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, is a rainforest-covered mountain range located in North Queensland, Australia. The range is located approximately from the Coral Sea and west of the coastal city of Mackay. The highest points are the summits of Mount William at about and Mount Dalrymple at . The range is composed of granite rocks. The slopes of Clarke Range form the upper reaches of the Pioneer River valley. Broken River also rises in the range, flowing west to join the Burdekin River. An exploration party led by John Mackay were the first Europeans to cross the range on 18 May 1860. The main road over the range winds sharply and steeply and is not suitable for caravans. Birds Some of the Clarke Range, encompassing the Eungella National Park, has been classified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports most of the population of the Eungella honeyeater, an isolated northern population of the regent bowerbird, and la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regent Bowerbird
The regent bowerbird (''Sericulus chrysocephalus'') is a medium-sized, up to 25 cm long, sexually dimorphic bowerbird. The male bird is black with a golden orange-yellow crown, mantle and black-tipped wing feathers. It has yellow Beak, bill, black feet and yellow Iris (anatomy), iris. The female is a brown bird with whitish or fawn markings, grey bill, black feet and crown. The name commemorates a prince regent of the United Kingdom. Diet The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and insects. Behaviour All male bowerbirds build Bowerbird, bowers, which can be simple ground clearings or elaborate structures, to attract female mates. Regent bowerbirds in particular are known to mix a muddy greyish blue or pea green "saliva paint" in their mouths which they use to decorate their bowers. The male builds an avenue-type bower consisting of two walls of sticks, decorated with shells, seeds, leaves and berries. Regents will sometimes use wads of greenish leaves as "paintbrushes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Dalrymple (Queensland)
Mount Dalrymple is a mountain in the Clarke Range, , located in Central Queensland, Central Queensland, Australia. The mountain has an elevation of . It is amongst the higher peaks in Queensland and is located northwest of Brisbane, and west of . The peak and surrounding ranges are covered in dense tropical rainforest and forms part of the Eungella National Park. It was named after George Elphinstone Dalrymple, an early European explorer of north Queensland. See also *List of mountains in Australia#Queensland, List of mountains in Queensland References Mountains of Queensland Central Queensland {{CentralQueensland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountains In Australia
This is a list of mountains in Australia. Highest points by state and territory List of mountains in Australia by topographic prominence This is a list of the top 50 mountains in Australia ranked by topographic prominence. Most of these peaks are the highest point in their areas. Australian Capital Territory The following is a list of mountains and prominent hills in the Australian Capital Territory in order, from the highest peak to the lowest peak, for those mountains and hills with an elevation above : New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia * Carnarvon Range * Mount Augustus (1105m) * Mount Beadell * Darling Range ** Mount Dale ** Mount Cooke * Hamersley Range ** Mount Meharry (at 1,249 metres above sea level, the highest peak in Western Australia) ** Mount Bruce (1,221 m; the second highest peak in WA) ** Mount Nameless/Jarndunmunha 1,115 m * Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly King Leopold Ranges * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bush Stone-curlew
The bush stone-curlew or bush thick-knee, also known as the Iben bird (''Burhinus grallarius'', obsolete name ''Burhinus magnirostris'') is a large, ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia. Its favoured habitat is open plains and woodlands, where it stalks slowly at night in search of invertebrates such as insects. Its grey-brown coloration is distinguished by dark streaks, its eyes are large and legs are long. It is capable of flight, but relies on the camouflage of its plumage to evade detection during the day; the bush curlew adopts a rigid posture when it becomes aware of an observer. Both sexes care for two eggs laid on the bare ground, usually sited near bush in a shaded position or next to a fallen branch. Taxonomy The bush stone-curlew was first described by English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name ''Charadius grallarius''. Latham published three names simultaneously; however, the seniority of ''C. grallarius'' follows the publication of the nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eungella Honeyeater
The Eungella honeyeater (''Bolemoreus hindwoodi'') is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae and is endemic to Australia. This species is found only in a small area of plateau rainforest in the Clarke Range, west of Mackay, in Queensland. Occasionally, this species can be seen foraging on the rainforest margin and adjacent open forest. The species name ''hindwoodi'' is for Keith Alfred Hindwood (1904–71), an amateur ornithologist, who became the President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union. The birds at Eungella were long considered to be an outlying population of the bridled honeyeater (''Bolemoreus frenatus'', formerly ''Lichenostomus frenatus''), but they were described as a separate species in 1983. The story of its discovery is documentehere 'Eungella' (/ˈjʌŋɡɛlə/ YUNG-gel-ə) is believed to be a local Aboriginal word for 'mountain of the mist' or 'land of cloud'.Higgins, PJ, Peter, J & Steele, W (eds) 1999, ''Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats. BirdLife International's priorities include preventing extinction of bird species, identifying and safeguarding important sites for birds, maintaining and restoring key bird habitats, and empowering conservationists worldwide. It has a membership of more than 2.5 million people across 116 country partner organizations, including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Wild Bird Society of Japan, the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy. BirdLife International has identified 13,000 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas and is the official International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List authority for birds. As of 2015, BirdLife International has established that 1,375 bird species (13% of the total) are threatened with extinction ( critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable). BirdLife International p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife International. There are over 13,000 IBAs worldwide. These sites are small enough to be entirely conserved and differ in their character, habitat or ornithological importance from the surrounding habitat. In the United States the Program is administered by the National Audubon Society. Often IBAs form part of a country's existing protected area network, and so are protected under national legislation. Legal recognition and protection of IBAs that are not within existing protected areas varies within different countries. Some countries have a National IBA Conservation Strategy, whereas in others protection is completely lacking. History In 1985, following a specific request from the European Economic Community, Birdlife International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eungella National Park
Eungella National Park ( ; meaning "Land of the clouds") is a protected area in Queensland, Australia. It is on the Clarke Range at the end of the Pioneer Valley 80 km west of Mackay, and 858 km northwest of Brisbane. Eungella is noted for the national park which surrounds it. It is considered to be the longest continual stretch of sub-tropical rainforest in Australia. The original inhabitants are the Wirri people. The park is covered by dense rainforest and is known for its platypuses. Regional description Eungella National Park is located on an isolated massif about 80 km west of Mackay in North–central Queensland.Winter, J., and K. R. McDonald. 1986. Eungella: the land of the cloud. Australian Natural History 22:39-43. The Eungella Plateau rises to 1259m at Mt Dalrymple and to similar elevation at Mt William, forming part of the Clarke Range.Kitching, R. L., D. Bickel, A. C. Creagh, K. Hurley, and C. Symonds. 2004. The biodiversity of Diptera in o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mackay (Australian Pioneer)
John Mackay (26 March 1839 – 11 March 1914) was a Scottish Highlands-born explorer, sailor, blackbirder and harbourmaster, best known for having the town of Mackay in Australia named after him. Early life John Mackay was born on 26 March 1839 to George and Ann Mackay in Inverness, Scotland. He moved with his parents to Australia in 1854 where they settled a year later in the New England district in the British colony of New South Wales. Mackay's father bought a property he named Ness Cottage on Saumarez Creek near Uralla and became a proprietor of several hotels in that town. As a young man, John Mackay involved himself in gold prospecting at the nearby Rocky River goldfields. Expedition to Central Queensland In 1860, Mackay led an exploration party from Uralla to what is now known as the Pioneer River in the central coastal region of Queensland. The group consisted of six Scottish colonists (John Mackay, John McCrossin, Andrew Murray, John Mulldoon, Donald Cameron and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burdekin River
The Burdekin River is a river located in North and Far North Queensland, Australia. The river rises on the northern slopes of Boulder Mountain at Valley of Lagoons, part of the western slope of the Seaview Range, and flows into the Coral Sea at Upstart Bay over to the southeast of the source, with a catchment area of approximately . The Burdekin River is Australia's largest river by (peak) discharge volume. The river was first encountered by Europeans during the expedition led by Ludwig Leichhardt in 1845 and named in honour of Thomas Burdekin, one of the sponsors of the expedition. Course and features The Burdekin River rises on the western slopes of the Seaview Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, west of . In the river's upper catchment, from its source the river generally flows west and then south out of the Girringun National Park, part of the UNESCO Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. This area, now part of Basalt was the location of one of the earliest inland settleme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackay, Queensland
} Mackay () is a city in the Mackay Region on the eastern or Coral Sea coast of Queensland, Australia. It is located about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is described as being in either Central Queensland or North Queensland, as these regions are not precisely defined. More generally, the area is known as the Mackay–Whitsunday Region. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's sugar. Name The city was named after John Mackay. In 1860, he was the leader of an expedition into the Pioneer Valley. Initially Mackay proposed to name the river Mackay River after his father George Mackay. Thomas Henry Fitzgerald surveyed the township and proposed it was called Alexandra after Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who married Prince Edward (later King Edward VII). However, in 1862 the river was renamed to be the Pioneer River, after in which Queensland Governor George Bowen travelled to the area, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer River
The Pioneer River is a river located in North Queensland, North Queensland, Australia. The long river flows through the city of . History Captain John Mackay (Australian pioneer), John Mackay and his party were the first Europeans to discover the river in 1860. Mackay named it Mackay River after his father, George Mackay of Uralla, New South Wales, Uralla in New South Wales. However, when George Bowen, the Governor of Queensland, visited on in October 1862, the name was changed to Pioneer River. Location and features The river rises in the Pinnacle Ranges below Mount McBryde near Pinevale, Queensland, southwest of Mackay. The river flows in a northerly direction into the #Pioneer Valley, Pioneer Valley. At the river flows to the east before reaching its mouth (river), mouth and emptying into the Coral Sea at Mackay. The river is joined by ten tributary, tributaries including Cattle Creek, Queensland (North Burnett Region) and Blacks Creek. The river is too shallow for nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
