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Cape Melville National Park

Cape Melville National Park
Queensland
IUCN category II (national park)
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Cape Melville National Park
Nearest town or city Cooktown
Established 1973
Area 1,370 km2 (529.0 sq mi)
Managing authorities Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
Website Cape Melville National Park
See also Protected areas of Queensland

Cape Melville is a national park in Queensland, Australia, located 1,711 km northwest of Brisbane. Its main features are the rocky headlands of Cape Melville, granite boulders of the Melville Range and beaches of Bathurst Bay.

The national park was the site of a 2013 National Geographic scientific expedition which discovered three new species. These were the Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko, Cape Melville shade skink and the Blotched boulder-frog.



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