The Berowra Valley National Park is a
protected
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national park
A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...
that is located in northern
Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
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. The national park is situated approximately north-west of the
Sydney central business district
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. Located within the
Sydney Basin
The Sydney Basin is an interim Australian bioregion and is both a structural entity and a depositional area, now preserved on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia and with some of its eastern side now subsided beneath the Tasman Sea. ...
, the park is part of the dissected Hornsby Plateau which is dominated by
Hawkesbury Sandstone and predominantly covers the catchment area of Berowra Creek.
A contiguous stretch of parkland, from south to north, its southern boundary is defined by Boundary Road, Pennant Hills; its southeastern boundary defined by the western limits of Hornsby; its northeastern boundary defined by the
Pacific Motorway; its northern boundary defined by
Berowra Waters
Berowra Waters is an outer suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Berowra is located 40 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. Berowra Waters is ...
; and its western boundary defined by a series of creek and gullies as the park extends into
Galston Gorge
Galston Gorge is a valley located in the Berowra Valley Regional Park in Sydney, Australia. It separates Galston from Hornsby Heights, and is intersected by Galston Road and the heritage-listed Tunks Creek Bridge at the foot of the valley ...
and further south.
A stretch of the
Great North Walk
The Great North Walk is a walking track which runs from Sydney to Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. The main track, in length, runs between the Obelisk in Macquarie Place in Sydney to Queens Wharf in Bicentennial Park in Newcastle and ...
is located within the national park.
Etymology
In the local
indigenous language
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the word ''Berowra'' means a "place of many winds".
History
Part of the park originally formed as a the Elouera Bushland Natural Park which was reserved in 1964 and consisted of . Additional lands were acquired and the park was gazetted as Reserve No. 100092 for public recreation and the study and preservation of native flora and fauna in 1987. This gazettal was in response to increasing community concern over the development of bushland areas in the Hornsby Shire. The park then came to be known as Berowra Valley Bushland Park. Further land additions were made to the park, which was gazetted as Berowra Valley Regional Park on 27 March 1998,
and was gazetted as a national park in September 2012.
On 27 January 2013 a man was found alive in the park after spending 9 weeks being lost. He survived one of Australia's worst heatwaves during which daytime temperatures reached more than 45 degrees, surviving on water and food he had brought with him.
"How Matt survived a nine-week nightmare '
Herald Post (Australia), January 28, 2013.
See also
* Protected areas of New South Wales
The Protected areas of New South Wales include both terrestrial and marine protected areas. there are 225 national parks in New South Wales.
Based on the Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) 2020 data there are 2136 separat ...
*Geography of Sydney
The geography of Sydney is characterised by its coastal location on a basin bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Blue Mountains to the west, the Hawkesbury River to the north and the Woronora Plateau to the south. Sydney lies on a s ...
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National parks of New South Wales
Protected areas established in 2012
2012 establishments in Australia
Urban forests
Parks in Sydney
Valleys of Australia
Hornsby Shire