Alfred National Park
Victorian national park closed after bushfire damage.
Alfred National Park is a national park located in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. It was declared in 1925 and covers 3,050 hectares (7,500 acres), situated approximately 388 kilometers east of Melbourne. The park is currently closed due to widespread bushfire damage and is dissected by the Princes Highway between Cann River and Genoa.
Quick Facts
- Iucn Category
- II
- Location
- Victoria
- Established
- 1925
- Nearest City
- Cann River
- Governing Body
- Parks Victoria
Facts from the source article.
Lore & Background
Alfred National Park reserves examples of warm temperate rainforest, particularly the jungle of Mount Drummer. Compared to tropical rainforests of Queensland and New South Wales, this is a floristically depauperate forest, representing the southern limit of this flora. The region is biogeographically interesting as the meeting point between subtropical flora from the north and cool temperate and arid zone floras from the south and west.
Reader's Guide
The park's rainforest community consists of a closed canopy of Lilly Pilly (Acmena smithii) with numerous lianas, ferns, and epiphytes. It is particularly known for four varieties of tree ferns and epiphytic orchids such as the orange-blossom orchid (Sarcochilus falcatus) and the rock orchid (Dendrobium speciosum). In the 1983 'Ash Wednesday' bushfires, the park was burned very badly. Its significance lies in preserving a southern outpost of subtropical rainforest flora and serving as a biogeographic crossroads.
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