Mount Martin National Park, Nature reserve in Mackay Region, Australia.
Mount Martin National Park is a 22-square-kilometre national park in Queensland, Australia, 32 kilometres northwest of Mackay and 90 kilometres south of Airlie Beach, south of the Bruce Highway. It protects a granite hill range rising to 490 metres from the coastal plain, linking the inland Clarke and Conners Ranges with the lowlands. The vegetation is mainly tropical rainforest with increasing numbers of hoop pines.
The Queensland government established the park on December 5, 2008, as part of regional efforts to protect natural landscapes in Central Queensland. This designation was part of a broader strategy to preserve coastal ecosystems and wildlife habitats.
The park has no roads, walking tracks or visitor facilities, so it is not a research centre and sees no organised public use. Its cultural interest lies in the name: Mount Martin honours a local figure, and the park was gazetted on 5 December 2008. Visitors look for hoop pines, whose numbers are increasing in the rainforest.
Mount Martin National Park has no roads, walking tracks or visitor facilities, so access is on foot through trackless terrain. It lies south of the Bruce Highway, 32 km northwest of Mackay and 90 km south of Airlie Beach. The granite ridge rises to 490 m from the coastal plain.
The park protects a granite hill range rising to 490 metres from the coastal plain, linking the inland Clarke and Conners Ranges with the lowlands near the coast. Its rainforest holds a growing number of hoop pines (Araucaria cunninghamii), a conifer native to New Guinea and eastern Australia.
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