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The Kanangra-Boyd National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Central Tablelands region, west of the Southern Highlands and Macarthur regions, in New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated approximately south-west of Sydney. and is contiguous with the Blue Mountains National Park and the Nattai National Park. The park was established in 1969. The Kanangra-Boyd National Park is one of the eight protected areas that, in 2000, was inscribed to form part of the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Greater Blue Mountains Area. The Kanangra-Boyd National Park is the most southwesterly of the eight protected areas within the World Heritage Site. The national park forms part of the Great Dividing Range. Notable features of the national park include the Thurat Spires, Kanangra Walls, Mount Colong, and three waterfall systems - the Kalang, the twotiered drop Kanangara and the Morong falls. The park also features a series of karst landforms that can be explored by those with caving experience. The movie ''Jedda'' was filmed in the Kanangra Walls area in 1954. ==Features and location== Kanangra-Boyd National Park is composed of two land units — the elevated, gently undulating Boyd Plateau and the area of creeks, rivers, gorges and ridges into which the plateau falls away. The plateau is traversed by the Kanangra Walls Road and can be accessed either from Oberon or Jenolan Caves. The road leads to Kanangra Walls. There are several well known landmarks in the park, such as Mount Cloudmaker, Kanangra Walls and the Thurat Spires. The word ''Kanangra'' is generally held to be a corruption of ''Gundangura'' and was called Thurat for some time. The national park is bounded to the north by open farmland; to the east by the Coxs River, the Blue Mountains National Park and the Kowmung River; to the southeast by the Yerranderie State Conservation Area; to the south by the Nattai National Park and the Wombeyan Caves Road; to the southwest by the Blue Mountains National Park; and to the west by the Kowmung River, the Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve, and open farmland and extensive state forests that surround the town of . The Abercrombie River National Park is situated a short distance, further southwest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kanangra-Boyd National Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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