Coalstoun Lakes National Park, National park in Queensland, Australia
Coalstoun Lakes National Park covers 0.26 km² on Mount Le Brun, an extinct volcano 22 km southwest of Biggenden at the Isis Highway. Its two shallow craters occasionally hold water, forming the Coalstoun Lakes, and are ringed by monsoon forest with bottle trees, Flindersia australis and the endangered Bosistoa selwynii in the undergrowth. A 1 km track circles the northern crater lake.
The park takes its name from the lakes, named in 1894 by pioneer Nugent Wade Brown, also known as Wade Brun, manager of nearby Ban Ban Station, after Coalstoun in Scotland, the ancestral home of the Brown family. His father John Brown had established a property called Colstoun near Gresford in the Hunter Valley in 1838. Another theory holds that Coalstoun is a corruption of the Aboriginal word Goanalganai.
The name Coalstoun Lakes was given in 1894 by Nugent Wade Brown, manager of nearby Ban Ban Station, after Coalstoun in Scotland, the ancestral home of the Brown family. One theory traces the name to a corruption of the Aboriginal word Goanalganai.
Walking paths, viewing points, and picnic areas are reached via maintained roads throughout the park. Since camping is not available, most visitors plan day trips and bring supplies for outdoor meals.
Mount Le Brun's two craters only sometimes hold water, so the Coalstoun Lakes are intermittent rather than permanent. Around them grows monsoon forest, one of the few remaining patches of this vegetation type in the district, with bottle trees, Flindersia australis and Leopard Ash, and the endangered Bosistoa selwynii in the undergrowth.
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