National Park "Lamington" is located on the homonymous plateau on McPherson ridge on the border of Queensland and New South Wales 110 km from Brisbane.
The Park is famous for its beautiful nature – rain forest, ancient trees, waterfalls, breathtaking views from mountain passes, a variety of animals and birds. It is part of the UNESCO world natural heritage of UNESCO "rainforest of Gondwana. Most of the Park is located at an altitude of 900 metres above sea level, just 30 km from the shores of the Pacific ocean. The plateau and mountains of the Lamington and the nearby national Park, Springbrook is the remains of a huge volcano, the tweed, which is more than 23 million years!
For at least 6 thousand years in the mountains inhabited by local natives. The vanished tribes Angerburg (wangerriburras) and nerangalil (nerangballum) believed plateau their home, but about 900 years ago, the aborigines began to leave these places. The first Europeans visited the Park, was captain Patrick Logan and Alan Cunningham in the mid-19th century. Soon there began intensive extraction of timber.
In the 1890s, a local activist Robert Martin Collins called on the government to protect these forests from being cut down, he even appealed to Parliament, but died before the ridge McPherson was taken under protection. Later, another activist, Romeo Lai started a campaign for the organization of the first in Queensland protected area on the ridge. National Park Lamington was created in 1915 and was named after Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1902.
Pristine mountain landscapes, waterfalls, caves, rain forest, Heather steppes, picturesque bays, a huge variety of wildlife and some of the best in Queensland tourist routes – all of this is protected in the national Park "Lamington". In 1979 the Park was visited by the famous British TV presenter David Attenborough for the filming of the documentary "Life on Earth".
Many plants in the Park are found nowhere else on earth, such as the Myrtle, of Lamington, Euphrasia mount Merino and hardy Daisy, which has been preserved here since the last ice age. Here you can also see plants that are endangered, such as the spotted Orchid.
The Park is one of the most important in the region of the habitats of wild animals, including rare and threatened with extinction, such as Fig-parrot Coxen, Eastern datingonline, lyrebird of albert, ptitsekrylka of Richmond. Blue crayfish of the Lamington is found only on the Lamington plateau in the ponds and streams at an altitude of 450 meters above sea level. Among other rare inhabitants of the Park – striated frog flea, a giant striped frog, cascade tree frog.
"Pearls" of the Park – more than 500 waterfalls, including Elabana falls and the Running Creek falls in the southern part, which falls in an almost vertical canyon.
The Park is well-developed network of Hiking trails – more than 150 km were laid in the times of the great Depression, and they laid so that walking on them tourists never feel out of breath. Where were inevitable mountainous slopes, instead of the steep trails were built stairs. Some trails are short enough for the development of other can take up to 7 hours. One of the most popular tourist routes – 23-kilometer Border runs right along the border between Queensland and New South Wales along the top ridge of McPherson.