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Protected area in Queensland, Australia
Thrushton National Park
Queensland
IUCN category II (national park)
Thrushton National Park is located in QueenslandThrushton National ParkThrushton National Park
Coordinates27°45′50″S 147°40′00″E / 27.76389°S 147.66667°E / -27.76389; 147.66667
Established1990
Area256.52 km (99.0 sq mi)
Managing authoritiesQueensland Parks and Wildlife Service
WebsiteThrushton National Park
See alsoProtected areas of Queensland

Thrushton is a national park in South West Queensland, Australia, 520 km West of Brisbane.

Dense mulga scrub typical of Queensland's Mulga Lands bioregion grows in this park. The park also protects flat spinifex sandplains, dry eucalypt woodlands and relics of the former sheep grazing era.

The land was previously grazed by the Gasteen and other families. They lobbied for it to become a national park in the late 1980s.

See also

References

  1. Gasteen, Jim (2005). Under the mulga: a bush memoir. University of Queensland Press. p. 224. ISBN 0702234451.
  2. Sattler, Paul S. (2014). Five Million Hectares – A Conservation Memoir – 1972-2008. Royal Society of Queensland: Paul Sattler Eco-Consulting. p. 51. ISBN 9780994223210.

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National parks of Queensland
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