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Bellenden Ker Range
The Belleden Ker Range, also known as the Wooroonooran Range〔(State of Queensland's Placenames Online Search - "Bellenden Ker Range" ) Retrieved on 2009-08-01〕 is a coastal mountain range in Far North Queensland, Australia. Part of the Great Dividing Range it is located between Gordonvale and Babinda.
The whole of the range falls within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area〔(Wet Tropics Management Authority World Heritage Area maps ) Retrieved on 2009-08-01〕 and is covered in richly diverse world heritage listed wet tropical forests, including species of flora and fauna endemic to the range. The range also forms part of the Wooroonooran Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of a range of bird species endemic to Queensland’s Wet Tropics.〔BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Wooroonooran. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-12-02.〕 Most of the range is also a gazetted protected area named Wooroonooran National Park.
Queensland's two highest mountains, Mount Bartle Frere (1622 m) and Mount Bellenden Ker (1593 m) form part of this range, and Walshs Pyramid (922 m) (one of the highest free-standing natural pyramids in the world) is located at the range's northern end .
==History==
The mountains were sighted by Lieutenant James Cook but weren't given the name "Bellenden Ker Range" before Lieutenant Phillip Parker King named them, on the 22 June 1819, whilst aboard the .〔 Lieutenant Phillip King named the range after the English botanist John Bellenden Ker Gawler, following the suggestion made to him by his ships own botanist, Allan Cunningham.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cairns Heritage: B Suburbs )〕 Archibald Meston was an early explorer of the range.
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