Eucla National Park
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Eucla National Park is a national park in Western Australia
(Australia
), 1238 kilometres (769 mi) east of Perth
.
The southern edge of the park borders a section of the Great Australian Bight
. Other notable features of the park include Wilson Bluff and Delisser sandhills.
The area is composed of mallee scrub
and heath
vegetaton, typical of the southern coast.
Wildflowers such as Cockie's Tongue (Templetonia retusa), with its distinctive red, pink or yellow flowers are common throughout the park. A rare plant species of senecio
that is native to the limestone cliff area is known to exist in the park.
Access to the area is via the Eyre Highway
found on the northern border of the park. No facilities are available for visitors in the park and no sealed roads exist withn the park, only 4WD tracks.
No camping is permitted within the park, the nearest camping facilities are at Eucla
and the Border Village.
Historical ruins such as the Eucla Telegraph station and the original Eucla township can be found at the western end of the park. Both are partially buried by encroaching sand dunes.
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
(Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
), 1238 kilometres (769 mi) east of Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
.
The southern edge of the park borders a section of the Great Australian Bight
Great Australian Bight
The Great Australian Bight is a large bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.-Extent:...
. Other notable features of the park include Wilson Bluff and Delisser sandhills.
The area is composed of mallee scrub
Mallee (habit)
Mallee is the growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber, usually to a height of no more than ten metres...
and heath
Heath (habitat)
A heath or heathland is a dwarf-shrub habitat found on mainly low quality acidic soils, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, often dominated by plants of the Ericaceae. There are some clear differences between heath and moorland...
vegetaton, typical of the southern coast.
Wildflowers such as Cockie's Tongue (Templetonia retusa), with its distinctive red, pink or yellow flowers are common throughout the park. A rare plant species of senecio
Senecio
Senecio is a genus of the daisy family that includes ragworts and groundsels. The flower heads are normally rayed, completely yellow, and the heads are borne in branched clusters...
that is native to the limestone cliff area is known to exist in the park.
Access to the area is via the Eyre Highway
Eyre Highway
The Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highway 1/A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who was the first to...
found on the northern border of the park. No facilities are available for visitors in the park and no sealed roads exist withn the park, only 4WD tracks.
No camping is permitted within the park, the nearest camping facilities are at Eucla
Eucla, Western Australia
Eucla is the easternmost locality in Western Australia, located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia along the Eyre Highway, approximately west of the South Australian border...
and the Border Village.
Historical ruins such as the Eucla Telegraph station and the original Eucla township can be found at the western end of the park. Both are partially buried by encroaching sand dunes.