Editing Alfred National Park

{{distinguish|text=[[Alfred Park]], a park in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type                   = protected
| name                   = Alfred National Park
| state                  = vic
| iucn_category          = II
| image                  = Ferns near cann river panorama.jpg
| caption                = Ferns within the Alfred National Park
| image_alt              = 
| coordinates            = {{coord|37|34|17|S|149|21|37|E|display=inline,title}}
| force_national_map     = 
| relief                 = yes
| pushpin_map_caption    = 
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|local_map=yes| nearest_town_or_city   = [[Cann River, Victoria|Cann River]]
| area                   = 30.50
| area_footnotes         = <ref name=vg/>
| established            = 1925
| established_footnotes  =<ref>{{cite web|url=http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/alfred-national-park|title=Alfred National Park|work=Parks Victoria|accessdate=20 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140818155315/http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/alfred-national-park|archive-date=18 August 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| visitation_num         = 
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| managing_authorities   = Parks Victoria
| url                    = http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/alfred-national-park
}}
The '''Alfred National Park''' is a [[national park]] located in the [[East Gippsland]] region of the Australian [[States and territories of Australia|state]] of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. The {{convert|3050|ha|acre|adj=on}}<ref name=vg>{{cite book|title=Alfred National Park Visitor Guide|date=April 2008|publisher=Parks Victoria|pages=2|url=http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/313156/Park-note-Alfred-National-Park.pdf|access-date=20 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043715/http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/313156/Park-note-Alfred-National-Park.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> national park is situated approximately {{convert|388|km}} east of Melbourne and was declared in 1925.

It is currently closed due to widespread bushfire damage.

The park is dissected by the [[Princes Highway#Victoria|Princes Highway]], between {{VICcity|Cann River}} and {{VICcity|Genoa}}.

==Features==
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The park reserves examples of warm temperate [[rainforest]], particularly the jungle of [[Mount Drummer, Victoria|Mount Drummer]]. Compared to the tropical rainforests of [[Queensland]] and [[New South Wales]], this is a floristically [[depauperate]] forest, representing as it does the southern limit of this flora. This region is biogeographically interesting as the meeting point between the [[subtropical]] flora of the north of Australia and the cool [[temperate]] and [[arid]] zone floras of the south and west. The rainforest community consists of a closed canopy of Lilly Pilly ''[[Acmena smithii]]'' with numerous [[liana]]s, [[fern]]s, and [[epiphyte]]s. The park is particularly known for the occurrence of four varieties of tree ferns and epiphytic [[orchid]]s such as the orange-blossom orchid ''[[Sarcochilus falcatus]]'' and the rock orchid ''[[Dendrobium speciosum]]''. In the 1983 '[[Ash Wednesday]]' bushfires, the park was burned very badly.

==See also==
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* [[Protected areas of Victoria]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite book|url=http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/313335/Lind-and-Alfred-National-Parks.pdf|type=PDF|title=Lind and Alfred National Parks Management Plan|date=August 1998|work=Parks Victoria|publisher=Government of Victoria|isbn=0-7306-6265-9|access-date=20 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821051124/http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/313335/Lind-and-Alfred-National-Parks.pdf|archive-date=21 August 2014|url-status=dead}}

{{Protected areas of Victoria|NP}}

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[[Category:Parks of Gippsland (region)]]
[[Category:National parks of Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1925]]
[[Category:1925 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:East Gippsland]]