Kwiambal National Park
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Kwiambal is a national park in New South Wales
, Australia
located about 30 km from the town of Ashford
. The Severn River
and Macintyre River
, both flow through and finally converge in the park below the MacIntyre falls. The park is studded with granite
outcrops and also features the Ashford Caves
.
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
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located about 30 km from the town of Ashford
Ashford, New South Wales
Ashford is a small farming community in the New England region of New South Wales, close to the Queensland border.-History:Frazer's Creek Post Office opened on 1 January 1853 and was renamed Ashford in 1863....
. The Severn River
Severn River (New South Wales)
The Severn River * is a river in the north of New South Wales, Australia. It rises on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales just north of Glen Innes and is wholly in NSW...
and Macintyre River
MacIntyre River
The Macintyre River is a river in northern New South Wales, Australia, part of which forms the border with Queensland.The headwaters of the Macintyre River rise west of Guyra and south of Glen Innes on the Northern Tablelands...
, both flow through and finally converge in the park below the MacIntyre falls. The park is studded with granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
outcrops and also features the Ashford Caves
Ashford Caves
The Ashford Caves Karst Conservation Reserve contains an outcrop of coralline limestone. It is about 8 km west of the former Ashford coal mine, north of Ashford and not far from the Queensland border town of Texas, Queensland. Originally on a private property, the Ashford Limestone caves are...
.
See also
- Protected areas of New South WalesProtected areas of New South WalesThe Protected areas of New South Wales include both terrestrial and aquatic protected areas. At 30 June 2010 there were 776 separate terrestrial protected areas with a total land area of . 189 of these are national parks, totalling...