Editing Mount Etna Caves National Park

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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type                   = protected
| name                   = Mount Etna Caves National Park
| state                  = qld
| iucn_category          = II
| image                  = Mt Etna Caves panorama.jpg
| caption                = View from eastern summit.
| image_alt              = 
| coordinates            = {{coord|23|09|37|S|150|28|31|E|display=inline,title}}
| relief                 = yes
| map_alt                = 
| nearest_town_or_city   = [[The Caves, Queensland|The Caves]]
| area                   = 4.78
| area_footnotes         = 
| established            = 1994
| established_footnotes  = 
| visitation_num         = 
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| visitation_footnotes   = 
| managing_authorities   = Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
| url                    = www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/mount-etna-caves/index.html
}}
'''Mount Etna Caves''' is a national park in [[The Caves, Queensland|The Caves]], [[Shire of Livingstone]], [[Queensland]], Australia, 544&nbsp;km northwest of [[Brisbane]]. 

The park's caves are the roosting site for more than 80 percent of Australia's breeding population of [[little bent-wing bat]]s. It is also one of the few places in Australia supporting a colony of the endangered [[ghost bat]].<ref>[http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/mount-etna-caves/about.html About Mount Etna Caves]. Retrieved on 12 July 2013.</ref>

== History ==
The '''Fitzroy Caves National Park''' was gazetted in 1973 with a focus on the protection of the bats rather than the caves. In 1990, it was renamed Mount Etna Caves National Park. In 1999, the park was extended to provide more protection to the caves.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Berrill|first=Peter|last2=Vavryn|first2=Dianne|title=An overview of the Mount Etna campaign|url=http://www.ackma.org/journal/72/An%20Overview%20of%20the%20Mt%20Etna%20campain%20-%20Peter%20Berill%20and%20Dianne%20Vavryn.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319051029/http://www.ackma.org/journal/72/An%20Overview%20of%20the%20Mt%20Etna%20campain%20-%20Peter%20Berill%20and%20Dianne%20Vavryn.pdf|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=19 March 2021|page=4}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Queensland}}
* [[Protected areas of Queensland]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/1dejkfd/alma99184227580202061 Mount Etna Caves environmental dispute digital story and oral history interviews], [[State Library of Queensland]]
{{Central Queensland}}
{{National Parks of Queensland}}

[[Category:National parks of Central Queensland]]
[[Category:Caves of Queensland]]
[[Category:Wild caves]]
[[Category:Limestone caves]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1994]]


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