Iron Range National Park
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Iron Range National Park Queensland |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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Iron Range National Park
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 Iron Range National Park
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| Nearest town or city | Weipa |
| Coordinates | 12°39′35″S 143°20′51″E / 12.65972°S 143.34750°ECoordinates: 12°39′35″S 143°20′51″E / 12.65972°S 143.34750°E |
| Established | 1977 |
| Area | 346 km2 (133.6 sq mi) |
| Managing authorities | Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service |
| Website | Iron Range National Park |
| See also | Protected areas of Queensland |
Iron Range is a National Park located in Queensland, Australia, 1,940 km northwest of Brisbane and 100 km east of Weipa in the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Within the National Park is the Iron Range (Lockhart River Resources Reserve), Scrubby Creek mining site and the Lockhart River Aboriginal Reserve. During World War II several Australian Army units were stationed in the area.
The park is part of the 6,205 km2 McIlwraith and Iron Ranges an Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it is one of the few known sites for the endangered buff-breasted buttonquail. The IBA also supports an isolated population of southern cassowaries as well as populations of lovely fairywrens, silver-crowned friarbirds, yellow, yellow-spotted, white-streaked and banded honeyeaters, and white-browed robins. As well as these, the eclectus parrot subspecies Eclectus roratus macgillivrayi is confined to the Iron and McIlwraith Ranges of eastern Cape York Peninsula.
In March 1940, Val Augenson of the Department of Civil Aviation inspected a possible site for an Emergency Landing Ground for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He reported to the RAAF that a suitable all-weather Emergency Landing Ground could be built in the area.
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