Mount Royal National Park

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Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox protected area The Mount Royal National Park is a protected national park located in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Gazetted in 1997, the Template:Convert park is situated approximately Template:Convert north of Sydney. Sections of the park had been subject to logging, which was disrupted by a blockade in 1989.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The park is part of the Barrington Tops group World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia inscribed in 1986<ref name="ausgovdep">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007.<ref name=anhl>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

During the 2019 Australian Bushfire Season, the park was damaged by the 'Mount Royal 1' fire.

Major Peaks

Mount Royal is the highest peak at 1,186m.

Pieres Peak is a major peak south of Mount Royal at 986m.

Fauna

The park is home to endangered animal species such as parma wallaby, rufous scrub bird, paradise riflebird, hastings river mouse and the glossy black-cockatoo.

The animals that live here do not seem to have evolved, today they look like their fossil remains.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

References

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