D'Aguilar National Park is a national park in
Queensland
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, Australia. It contains the
D'Aguilar Range and is located along the northwest of the
Brisbane
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metropolitan area. The park is traversed by the winding scenic Mount Nebo Road and Mount Glorious Road.
The park contains eucalyptus woodlands, sheltered pockets of sub-tropical rainforest, a number of crevasses and views of
Moreton Bay
Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia from central Brisbane, Queensland. It is one of Queensland's most important coastal resources. The waters of Moreton Bay are a popular destination for recreational anglers and are ...
and the
Glass House Mountains
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.
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Retrieved 18 November 2012. The Walkabout Creek Visitor Centre is located at the edge of the park. There are two formal, vehicle accessible camping areas in the
Mount Mee section and eight remote bush camping sites (accessible only by walking) in the southern D'Aguilar (formerly
Brisbane Forest Park) section.
Camping information
Retrieved 18 November 2012. Popular lookouts include Jolly's Lookout, Westridge Outlook, Camp Mountain Lookout and Wivenhoe Lookout, overlooking Lake Wivenhoe. The villages of Mount Nebo
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and Mount Glorious are located on Mount Nebo Road on the edges of the national park and are popular stops for tourists driving through the park.
The southern part of the park was formerly known as Brisbane Forest Park, while the northern part of the park is at Mount Mee.
Flora
Woodlands and dry eucalypt forests predominate on the drier, shallower soils of the park's foothills. Spotted Gum ( Corymbia variegata) and Narrow-leaved Ironbark are two of the main species. There are also small areas of heath and ridges dominated by grass trees ( Xanthorrhoea spp). Remnant pockets of lowland rainforest occur in the valleys along some of the watercourses.[Wild places of Greater Brisbane - Stephen Poole et al. Queensland Museum. 1996. ]
Moist sub-tropical rainforest grows on the highest parts of the range where the rainfall is two-thirds greater than in the foothills, particularly on the rich basaltic soils north of Mt Glorious. Huge strangler figs (''Ficus watkinsiana'') can be seen emerging through the canopy.
Fauna
More than 240 species of birds have been recorded in the park, including the noisy pitta (''Pitta versicolor''), southern logrunner (''Orthonyx temminckii''), paradise riflebird (''Ptiloris paradiseus''), regent bowerbird (''Sericulus chrysocephalus''), satin bowerbird (''Ptilonorhynchus violaceus''), brush-turkey (''Alectura lathami''), laughing kookaburra (''Dacelo novaeguineae''), pied currawong (''Strepera graculina''), red goshawk (''Erythrotriorchis radiatus''), marbled frogmouth (''Podargus ocellatus''), bush-hen (''Amaurornis olivacea''), black-breasted button quail (''Turnix melanogaster''), white-bellied sea eagle (''Haliaeetus leucogaster''), comb-crested jacana (''Irediparra gallinacea'') and cotton pygmy goose (''Nettapus coromandelianus'').kangaroo
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s.monitor lizard
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and the land mullet (''Egernia major''), which is a large, shiny black skink
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. 26 species of frogs have been recorded in the park, including the great barred frog (''Mixophyes fasciolatus''). The most common amphibian in the park is an introduced pest, the cane toad (''Rhinella marina'').
See also
* Protected areas of Queensland
Queensland is the second-largest state in Australia. As at 2020, it contained more than 1,000 protected areas. In August 2023, it was estimated a total of 14.5 million hectares or 8.38% of Queensland's landmass was protected.
List of terrestria ...
References
External links
D'Aguilar National Park
— Queensland Government website
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National parks of South East Queensland
Protected areas established in 1938
1938 establishments in Australia