Nightcap National Park
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#IUCN_Category_II
#National_parks_of_New_South_Wales
#Protected_areas_established_in_1983
#Gondwana_Rainforests_of_Australia
#1983_establishments_in_Australia
#Important_Bird_Areas_of_New_South_Wales
#Northern_Rivers
The Nightcap Range - map from OpenStreetMap.
The main area highlighted in green is the Nightcap National Park, also including the Whian Whian State Conservation Area.
The Nightcap National Park is a national park situated within the Nightcap Range in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
The 8,080-hectare （20,000-acre） park was created in April 1983 and is situated 35 kilometres （22 mi） north of Lismore.
The national park is classed by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas as Category II and is part of the Shield Volcano Group of
the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia inscribed in 1986 and added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007.
The park is on the south-eastern edge of the Mount Warning erosion caldera.
Creating features of gullies, ridges and a massif of peaks that form the eroded remnants of the Tweed shield volcano.
The tallest peak at Nightcap is Mount Burrell also known as Blue Knob with an elevation of 933m above sea level.
The Nightcap Range is mostly situated in the park and is a spur off the Great Dividing Range.
The basalt and rhyolite lava that once flowed from the Tweed volcano （known as Mount Warning）, which erupted over 23 million years ago, has produced various vegetation communities.
On soil with a rhyolitic base is warm temperate rainforest that covers much of the park, and the nutrient rich basalt soil produces sub-tropical rainforest.
Nightcap has the highest rainfall in NSW with rain exceeding 2500mm per annum.
The mean temperature ranges from 19.
1 °C to 29.
7 °C; the region can experience high humidity and temperatures can get close to 40 °C. High rainfall events and storms of...