Gulaga National Park

Horse Head Rock, on the coast near Lake Wallaga

Gulaga National Park is a national park on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, about Template:Convert south of Narooma.<ref name=volcano/><ref>Gulaga creation experience by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Retrieved August 13, 2023.</ref> The park is dominated by Gulaga, also known as Mount Gulaga (formerly Mount Dromedary).<ref name="NPWSGulaga">Template:Cite web</ref> The former Wallaga Lake National Park, Goura Nature Reserve, and Mount Dromedary Flora Reserve were combined to form this park in 2001. The park features the southernmost subtropical rainforest in New South Wales.<ref>Rainforest In Southern New South Wales by the University of New England. Retrieved August 11, 2023.</ref>

History

Gulaga was an active volcano more than 60 million years ago.<ref name=volcano>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2001, as part of the Southern Comprehensive Regional Forest Agreement and at the request of Yuin people, Gulaga National Park was created out of the existing Wallaga Lake National Park, Goura Nature Reserve, and Mt Dromedary Flora Reserve.<ref name=may2006>Template:Cite web PDF File:CC-BY icon.svg Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. (see here.)</ref>

On 6 May 2006 the freehold titles to Gulaga and Biamanga National Parks were handed back to the Yuin people, the traditional owners of the land, by the New South Wales Government, represented by then New South Wales Environment Minister Bob Debus. Freehold title of Gulaga National Park is held in trust by land councils for the Aboriginal owners by Merrimans and Wagonga Local Aboriginal Lands Councils, while that of Biamanga will be held in trust by Merrimans and Bega Local Aboriginal Lands Councils.<ref name=may2006/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The mountain is currently Template:Convert high, surrounded by lakes, mining tracks, rainforest and the countryside. The park is Template:Convert in area.<ref name="NPWSGulaga"/> It forms part of the Ulladulla to Merimbula Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for swift parrots.<ref>BirdLife International. (2012). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Ulladulla to Merimbula. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2012-01-02.</ref>

Wallaga Lake, the largest lake in southern NSW,<ref name="visitnsw">Template:Cite web</ref> lies within the park.<ref name="begashire">Template:Cite web</ref>