Ngalba Bulal National Park

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Ngalba Bulal National Park
Queensland
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Ngalba Bulal National Park
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Ngalba Bulal National Park
Nearest town or city Cooktown
Coordinates 15°46′37″S145°20′47″E / 15.77694°S 145.34639°E / -15.77694; 145.34639
Established2011
Managing authorities Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
Website Ngalba Bulal National Park
See also Protected areas of Queensland

Ngalba Bulal is a national park in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. [1] In 2015, Cedar Bay National Park became the Mangkalba (Cedar Bay) section of the Ngalba Bulal National Park. [2] [3]

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Geography

The park is 1,522 km (946 mi) northwest of Brisbane, 40 km (25 mi) south of Cooktown and accessible only by boat or foot. The park is one of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area series of national parks, and is a gazetted World Heritage Site. [4] It is also known as Mangkal-Mangkalba [5] in the dialect of the local Aboriginal population, the Eastern Kuku Yalanji. [6]

History

The Cedar Bay area was developed in the 1870s for tin mining, and the remains of the tin work can still be seen in the area of Black Snake Rocks.

Cedar Bay gained a degree of notoriety in the 1970s when the Bjelke-Petersen government destroyed a hippie commune that had been present there since July 1972, when it was started by people who had unsuccessfully tried to set one up in Kuranda. [7] [8] The raid was controversial because of the immense cost ($50,000) and use of a helicopter, light aircraft and a Navy vessel to arrest 12 people on drug and vagrancy charges. [9] At the Cedar Bay inquiry, police were accused of burning huts, smashing personal belongings, destroying clothing, chopping down fruit plantations and, ironically, consuming alcohol at the site following the drug raid. Police, in their defence, tendered evidence of squalid living conditions and described the commune’s inhabitants as "filthy, criminal hippies". [10] Andrew Olle's report on this incident for the ABC current affairs show This Day Tonight won the award for "Outstanding Contribution to TV Journalism" at the Logie Awards of 1977. [11] [12]

In 2007, the Cedar Bay National Park was part of the 2,000 square kilometres (770 sq mi) of land handed over to Cape York's Aboriginal population by the Queensland government. [13] The handover came as a result of a 1994 native title claim. [14]

Cedar Bay National Park was known as Mount Finnigan National Park before being enlarged.

Activities

The park contains some of the northernmost tropical rainforests in Australia. Birdwatching is a popular activity with the most common birds including cassowaries, yellow-breasted sunbirds, double-eyed fig-parrots, mangrove kingfishers, beach stone-curlews and pied imperial-pigeons. Bush camping is permitted in the park, however fishing and collecting are prohibited. The sole walking track in the park was a former donkey track used by tin miners. It is inaccessible to all but fit walkers. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Ngalba Bulal National Park – Cook Shire (entry 52082)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Cedar Bay National Park". 23 July 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
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  4. ↑ "Wet Tropics of Queensland". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
  5. ↑ "Cedar Bay (Mangkal-Mangkalba) National Park". Environmental Protection Agency. Archived from the original on 31 December 2007. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
  6. ↑ "Aborigines Win Back Cape York Land". The Age. Melbourne. 11 April 2007. Retrieved 29 January 2008.
  7. ↑ Wilkie, Bill (2019). "Paradise lost: The Cedar Bay raid" . Griffith Review. No. 65. pp. 35–42.
  8. ↑ Wilkie, Bill (3 August 2019). "Cedar Bay police raids: Troubled days in paradise" . The Courier-Mail (QWeekend). Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  9. ↑ "Coming to a place near you Cedar Bay. No police convicted It. There will be repetition(sic)". olddogthoughts. 13 September 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
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