| Expedition National Park Queensland | |
|---|---|
IUCN category II (national park) | |
  Expedition National Park | |
| Coordinates | 25°07′44″S148°51′56″E / 25.12889°S 148.86556°E Coordinates: 25°07′44″S148°51′56″E / 25.12889°S 148.86556°E |
| Established | 1991 |
| Area | 1,080 km2 (417.0 sq mi) |
| Managing authorities | Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service |
| Website | Expedition National Park |
| See also | Protected areas of Queensland |
Expedition is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 490 km northwest of Brisbane. It is named for the Expedition Range of mountains.
A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), has defined "National Park" as its Category II type of protected areas.
Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
The park is part of the Brigalow Belt bioregion. [1]
The Brigalow Belt is a wide band of acacia wooded grassland that runs between tropical rainforest of the coast and the semi-arid interior of Queensland, Australia. See Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia for the IBRA definitions of the Brigalow Belt South (BBS) and the Brigalow Belt North (BBN) bioregions. The Northern and Southern Brigalow Belts are two of the 85 bioregions across Australia and the 15 bioregions in Queensland. Together they form most of the Brigalow tropical savanna ecoregion.
Robinson Gorge was the first section to be declared a national park in 1951. [1]
