Eungella National Park, Nature reserve in Queensland, Australia.
Eungella National Park protects about 52,900 ha of rainforest on the Clarke Range, an isolated massif rising to 1,259 m at Mount Dalrymple. The rainforest ranges from notophyll vine forest with tall red stringybark on eastern ridges to drier western slopes with hoop pine, bordered by eucalypt forest and woodland.
The park was established in 1941 to protect the subtropical rainforest that covered Queensland before European settlement. This preservation effort has kept this forest type intact through decades of development in the region.
The name comes from an Indigenous word meaning land of the cloud, a reference to the mist that regularly blankets the mountains. Visitors experience this connection when walking through the forest and encountering the fog that rolls through the valleys.
Visitors can use over 20 kilometers of marked walking trails, with camping facilities at Fern Flat and viewing platforms at Broken River. The drier months offer the best conditions for walking, as trails can be muddy and slippery after rain.
The northern gastric-brooding frog was found near here in 1984, on an area of less than 500 km², and could not be found again the following year; the species is considered extinct. The Eungella honeyeater, first collected in 1975 and described in 1983, was the most recently described Australian bird species.
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