Editing Snowy River National Park

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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type                   = protected
| name                    = Snowy River National Park
| iucn_category           = II
| state                   = vic
| image                   = Little River Gorge.jpg
| caption                 = The [[Little River (Snowy River National Park)|Little River]] Gorge, located within the national park
| nearest_town_or_city   = [[Buchan, Victoria|Buchan]]
| coordinates            = {{coord|37|16|30|S|148|33|12|E|display=inline,title}}
| relief                 = yes
| local_map              = yes
|zoom=8| area                   = 987
| area_footnotes         = <ref name=mgmtplan>{{cite book|url=http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/313434/Snowy-River-National-Park-Management-Plan.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331152733/http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/313434/Snowy-River-National-Park-Management-Plan.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-03-31|type=PDF|title=Snowy River National Park management plan|series=[[Parks Victoria]]|publisher=Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Victoria|date=May 1995|isbn=0-7306-4099-X|access-date=26 August 2014|pages=1–3}}</ref>
| established            = {{start date|1979|04|26|df=y}}
| established_footnotes  = <ref name=mgmtplan/>
| visitation_num         = 
| visitation_year        = 
| managing_authorities   = Parks Victoria
| url                    = http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/snowy-river-national-park
}}

The '''Snowy River National Park''' is a [[national park]] located in the [[Victorian Alps|Alpine]] and [[East Gippsland]] regions of Victoria, Australia. The {{convert|98700|ha|acre|adj=on}} national park is situated approximately {{convert|390|km}} northeast of Melbourne and {{convert|350|km}} southwest of Canberra, south of the [[Black-Allan Line]] that marks part of the border between Victoria and [[New South Wales]].

On 7 November 2008, the park was added to the [[Australian National Heritage List]] as one of eleven areas constituting the [[Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/australian-alps/index.html |title=Australian Alps National Parks information |access-date=2010-06-10 |publisher=Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts }}</ref>

== History ==
Some [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] relics were discovered on the Snowy River which indicated that the Kruatungulung group of the [[Kurnai]] people used to hunt here. It was in the 1840s that cattlemen and miners visited the region and started using the higher land for summer grazing and introduced silver mining. The proposal for the national park was submitted in 1935, but the establishment took place in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/snowy-river-national-park/culture-and-heritage|title=Culture and heritage|publisher=Parks Victoria}}</ref>

==Location and features==
Declared on {{start date|1979|04|26|df=y}}, much of the park is classified as wilderness area, where vehicles are unable to visit.<ref name=mgmtplan/> Within the national park is the Little River Gorge, Victoria's deepest gorge, with the [[Little River (Snowy River National Park)|Little River]] descending {{convert|610|m}} off the Wulgulmerang plateau over {{convert|14|km}} to the [[Snowy River]] at an elevation of {{convert|122|m}} [[Australian Height Datum|above sea level]].

The park provides one of the last natural habitats at the Little River Gorge for the endangered [[brush-tailed rock wallaby]]. Numbers for this species are estimated as extremely small, with the rugged terrain making it difficult to accurately monitor the species population. Over 250 native species have been recorded in the park, 29 of which are considered rare or threatened in Victoria, including the [[long-footed potoroo]], [[spotted quoll]] (tiger quoll), [[giant burrowing frog]] and ''Cyclodomorphus michaeli''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/315641/Park-note-Snowy-River-National-Park.pdf|title=Snowy River National Park: park notes|department=[[Parks Victoria]]|publisher=Government of Victoria|date=November 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103033103/http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/315641/Park-note-Snowy-River-National-Park.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2014}}</ref>

McKillops Road is the northern park boundary, with the [[Alpine National Park]] to the north of the road. The road is designated unsuitable for caravans, trailers and semi-trailers due to its long, narrow, and steep descent down to McKillops Bridge which crosses the Snowy River near its juncture with the Deddick River. The park is also located adjacent to the [[Errinundra National Park]], the [[Coopracambra National Park]], and the nearby [[Croajingolong National Park]] and [[Cape Conran Coastal Park]].<ref name=mgmtplan/>

==See also==
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* [[Protected areas of Victoria]]
* [[Snowy Mountains Scheme]]
* [[List of national parks of Australia]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Snowy River National Park}}
*{{cite web|url=http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/315642/Park-note-Snowy-River-NP-Silver-Mine-Walking-Track.pdf|title=Snowy River National Park: Silver Mine Walking Track|department=[[Parks Victoria]]|publisher=Government of Victoria}}

{{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 1979]]
[[Category:Australian National Heritage List]]
[[Category:1979 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves]]
[[Category:Snowy River]]
[[Category:Southeast Australia temperate forests]]