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Eungella
Eungella ( ; meaning "Land of the clouds") is a township nestled on the edge of the Clarke Range at the end of the Pioneer Valley 80 km west of Mackay, and 858 km northwest of Brisbane. Eungella is noted for the national park which surrounds it. It is considered to be the longest continual stretch of sub-tropical rainforest in Australia. The original inhabitants are the Wirri people. The park is covered by dense rainforest and is known for its platypuses. Also it has a dam that supplies water for Collinsville, Mackay and Moranbah.
==Regional description==
Eungella National Park is located on an isolated massif about 80 km west of Mackay in North–central Queensland.〔Winter, J., and K. R. McDonald. 1986. Eungella: the land of the cloud. Australian Natural History 22:39-43.〕 The Eungella Plateau rises to 1259m at Mt Dalrymple and to similar elevation at Mt William, forming part of the Clarke Range.〔Kitching, R. L., D. Bickel, A. C. Creagh, K. Hurley, and C. Symonds. 2004. The biodiversity of Diptera in old world rain forest surveys: a comparative faunistic analysis. Journal of Biogeography 31:1185-1200.〕 〔
The park preserves about half (30,000 ha) the area of rainforest present at the time of European settlement, which has been much reduced by logging.〔 Rainforest in the National Park ranges from high elevation, notophyll vine forest to low elevation mesophyll forests at the base of the ranges.〔Majer, J. D., R. L. Kitching, B. E. Heterick, K. Hurley, and K. E. C. Brennan. 2001. North–South patterns within arboreal ant assemblages from rain forests in eastern Australia. Biotropica 33:643-661.〕 Notophyll vine forest with tall eucalypts such as red stringybark (''Eucalyptus resinifera'') is found on the ridges of eastern facing slopes and drier western slopes often contain hoop pine (''Araucaria cunninghamii'').〔 The rainforests of the Eungella massif represent one of the most isolated patches of this vegetation type in Australia.〔 The rainforest is bordered by eucalypt forests and woodlands across much of its extent.〔
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