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Wollemi National Park

Wollemi National Park
New South Wales
IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)
(1)Capertee River.jpg
Capertee River, located within the southern portion of the national park.
Wollemi National Park is located in New South Wales
Wollemi National Park
Wollemi National Park
Nearest town or city Lithgow
Coordinates 32°52′26″S 150°29′32″E / 32.87389°S 150.49222°E / -32.87389; 150.49222Coordinates: 32°52′26″S 150°29′32″E / 32.87389°S 150.49222°E / -32.87389; 150.49222
Established December 1979 (1979-12)
Area 5,017 km2 (1,937.1 sq mi)
Managing authorities NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Website Wollemi National Park
See also Protected areas of
New South Wales

The Wollemi National Park is a protected national park and wilderness area that is located in the northern Blue Mountains and Lower Hunter regions of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 501,703-hectare (1,239,740-acre) park, the second largest national park in New South Wales, contains the 361,113-hectare (892,330-acre) Wollemi Wilderness – the largest such wilderness area in Australia – and is situated approximately 130 kilometres (81 mi) northwest of Sydney.

The Wollemi National Park is one of the eight protected areas that, in 2000, was enscribed to form part of the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Greater Blue Mountains Area. The Wollemi National Park is the most north–westerly of the eight protected areas within the World Heritage Site. The national park forms part of the Great Dividing Range.

It contains the only known living wild specimens of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis), a species thought to have become extinct on the mainland approximately thirty million years ago, but discovered alive in three small stands in 1994.

The national park is bounded to the north by the Goulburn River National Park and the Bylong Valley Way; to the east by the Yengo National Park, the Parr State Conservation Area, and the Putty Road; to the south by the Blue Mountains National Park and the Bells Line of Road; to the south–west by the Wolgan Valley and the Gardens of Stone National Park; and to the west by open farmland that surround the towns of Rylstone and Kandos and the Capertee Valley.


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