Conway is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 911 km northwest of Brisbane. The park's main feature is the Conway Peninsula which is covered by the largest area of lowland

tropical rainforest Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south of the Equator. They are a subset of the tropical forest biome that occurs roughly within the 28° latitudes (in the torrid zo ...

in Queensland outside Tropical North Queensland. The average elevation of the terrain is 44 metres.

Flora and Fauna

Among the plant species in the park are dry vine thicket,

mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline water, saline or brackish water. Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along coastlines and tidal rivers. They have particular adaptations to take in extra oxygen a ...

s, open forests with a grasstree understorey,

paperbark ''Melaleuca'' () is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles, bottlebrushes or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of '' Leptospermum''). They ...

and pandanus woodlands and others. Park is also home to two mound-building birds, the Australian brush-turkey and the

orange-footed scrubfowl The orange-footed scrubfowl (''Megapodius reinwardt''), also known as orange-footed megapode or just scrubfowl, is a small megapode of the family Megapodiidae native to many islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as southern New Guinea and n ...

Public access

Walk-in bush camping is permitted however there are no established camp sites. There are a number of walking tracks graded from easy to moderate.

References

{{authority control National parks of Queensland Protected areas established in 1938 North Queensland

Flora and Fauna

Public access

See also

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