Wollumbin N.P. [Mt Warning] - Gondwana Rainforest, NSW, Australia
S 28° 23.886 E 153° 17.100
56J E 527918 N 6858663
Wollumbin National Park has significant geological features, and is designated as 386-005 in the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia section.
Waymark Code: WMV62A
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 03/01/2017
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Wollumbin N.P. contains the iconic volcanic plug of Mount Warning, within a caldera that stretches to the Queensland border, where the World Heritage Listing continues - within Queensland.
If you want to TRULY appreciate the vastness of the caldera, then consider hiking up to the top of Mt Warning (on a clear day), but as the signs say, be prepared for a 5 hour return walk. So take some snacks and water with you, as well as obviously your camera and mobile phone.
The Mount Warning National Park (NSW) of 2,380 ha, was added to the World Heritage Listing in 1986. [Later to be called Wollumbin N.P.]
From the UNESCO listing for #368: (
visit link)
"The Tweed Shield erosion caldera is possibly the best preserved erosion caldera in the world, notable for its size and age, for the presence of a prominent central mountain mass (Wollumbin/Mt Warning), and for the erosion of the caldera floor to basement rock. All three stages relating to the erosion of shield volcanoes (the planeze, residual and skeletal stages) are readily distinguishable."
"The flora and fauna of the Gondwana Rainforests provides outstanding examples of ongoing evolution including plant and animal taxa which show evidence of relatively recent evolution. The rainforests have been described as ‘an archipelago of refugia, a series of distinctive habitats that characterise a temporary endpoint in climatic and geomorphological evolution’. The distances between these ‘islands’ of rainforest represent barriers to the flow of genetic material for those taxa which have low dispersal ability, and this pressure has created the potential for continued speciation."