One of Australia's oldest national parks; it protects Wineglass Bay, reckoned one of the ten best beaches in the world
Area
169 km²
Declared in
1916
Region
Tasmania
Climate
Tropical, Árido / desértico, Templado, Mediterráneo
Best time
March to May
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One of Australia's oldest national parks; it protects Wineglass Bay, reckoned one of the ten best beaches in the world
Declared in 1916, it is one of the oldest national parks in Australia. Its most celebrated rock formation, a group of pink granite peaks known as The Hazards, frames Wineglass Bay, a beach of white sand and turquoise water repeatedly ranked among the ten best in the world by various international travel publications. It is one of the last significant mainland refuges of the Tasmanian devil, whose population across the rest of the island has been severely hit since the 1990s by a contagious facial tumour — one of the few transmissible cancers known in mammals — which has drastically reduced the species' total numbers.
Location
See on the interactive map34 species documented in Freycinet
At conservation risk:Demonio de Tasmania,Quoll oriental,Gran tiburón blanco
Endemic to Australia:Demonio de Tasmania
EndangeredDemonio de Tasmania
Sarcophilus harrisii
Águila audaz
Aquila audax
Least ConcernBallena franca austral
Eubalaena australis
Least ConcernDelfín mular
Tursiops truncatus
EndangeredQuoll oriental
Dasyurus viverrinus
Least ConcernWombat común
Vombatus ursinus
Least ConcernAbanico australiano
Rhipidura leucophrys
Araña de espalda roja
Latrodectus hasselti
Bandicoot meridional de nariz corta
Isoodon obesulus
Boca de rana gris
Podargus strigoides
Cacatúa galerita
Cacatua galerita
Cisne negro
Cygnus atratus
Flora and ecosystems
Ecosystems found in Australia, where Freycinet lies.
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