Cape Melville

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Cape Melville, Cape York, Australia.
Cape Melville.

Cape Melville is a headland on the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. To its west lies Princess Charlotte Bay. It is part of the Cape Melville National Park.

Pipon Island is about six km north of the cape and Hales Island about two km east, both part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

The cape consists of granite outcrops which formed 250 million years ago.[1]

In March 2013, a team of scientists and filmmakers joined the ranks of the few human visitors to the misty rain forest atop the Melville Range, a small mountain range on Cape Melville, part of northeastern Australia's Cape York Peninsula.[2]

The fauna and flora found near Cape Melville is diverse and includes several endemic species, including the Foxtail Palm[1] the Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko,[3] the Cape Melville shade skink and the Blotched boulder-frog.[4]

See also

  • Protected areas in Queensland


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cape Melville National Park: Nature, culture and history". Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2013. 
  2. ↑ Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic, October 25, 2013l
  3. ↑ Hoskin, Conrad J.; Couper, Patrick (1 October 2013). "A spectacular new leaf-tailed gecko (Carphodactylidae: Saltuarius) from the Melville Range, north-east Australia". Zootaxa 3717 (4): 543. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3717.4.6. 
  4. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/leaftailed-gecko-goldencoloured-skink-and-boulderdwelling-frog-new-species-found-in-australias-lost-world-8909466.html
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