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The Nightcap National Park is a national park located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. The park was created in April 1983〔 and is situated north of . The national park is classed by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas as Category II and is part of the Shield Volcano Group of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia inscribed in 1986 and added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007. The Nightcap Ranges are located within the national park. ==Regional Geology and Climate== The park is on the south-eastern edge of the Mount Warning erosion caldera. Creating features of gullies, ridges and a massif of peaks that form the eroded remnants of the Tweed shield volcano. The tallest peak at Nightcap is Mount Burrell also known as Blue Knob with an elevation of 933m above sea level. The Nightcap Range is mostly situated in the park and is a spur off the Great Dividing Range. The basalt and rhyolite lava that once flowed from the Tweed volcano (known as Mount Warning) that had erupted over 23 million years ago, has produced various vegetation communities. On soil with a rhyolitic base is warm temperate rainforest that cover much of the park and the nutrient rich basalt soil produce sub-tropical rainforest.〔 Nightcap has the highest rainfall in NSW with rain exceeding 2500mm per annum. The mean temperature ranges from 19.1 °C to 29.7 °C; the region can experience high humidity and temperatures can get close 40 °C. High rainfall events and storms of cyclonic strength can occur during the summer.〔 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「Nightcap National Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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