Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. The national park was previously named Cape Melville National Park until it was renamed on 28 November 2013.

Geography

The park is 1,711 km northwest of Brisbane. Its main features are the rocky headlands of Cape Melville, granite boulders of the Melville Range and beaches of Bathurst Bay. The national park was the site of a 2013 National Geographic Society, National Geographic scientific expedition which discovered three new species. These were the Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko, Cape Melville shade skink and the Blotched boulder-frog. The park is home to a wide variety of plant communities, including Mangrove, mangroves, Rainforest, rainforests, Heath, heathlands, Woodland, woodlands and Grassland, grasslands. The average elevation of the terrain is 43 meters.

References

National parks of Far North Queensland Protected areas established in 1973 1973 establishments in Australia {{FarNorthQueensland-geo-stub

Geography

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