Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land)
National park in Queensland, Australia
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Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in Queensland, Australia. It is 1,602 km northwest of Brisbane. The national park was previously named Mount Webb National Park until it was renamed on 28 November 2013.[1]
| Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) | |
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  Daarrba National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) Location within Queensland | |
| Location | Queensland |
| Nearest city | Cooktown |
| Coordinates | 15°04′09″S 145°07′23″E |
| Area | 4.17 km2 (1.61 sq mi) |
| Established | 1973 |
| Governing body | Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service |
Vegetation
The national park features a number of unique and threatened ecosystems including rare examples of complex rainforest vegetation communities developed upon Basalt soils within the Cape York Peninsula bioregion.[2][3]
Rainforest communities located within the national park include:
- Deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing on alluvial soils.[2]
- Semi-deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing on floodplains.[2]
- Semi-deciduous mesophyll/notophyll vine forest growing upon structured red earth soils derived from Basalt.[3]
- Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on structured red earth soils derived from basalt in a shallow valley.[3]
- Semi-deciduous notophyll/microphyll vine forest growing on exposed metamorphic and granitic slopes.[2]
An additional threatened ecosystem located within the national park is a sclerophyll woodland dominated by Eucalyptus leptophleba, Corymbia tessellaris and Corymbia clarksoniana which has developed upon soils formed from basalt flows.[2]
