National Park Aboriginal · aus
Cape Melville
- Area
- 1 700 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2013
Overview
- Designation
- National Park Aboriginal
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2013
- Managing authority
- AU-QLD_DES
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
988 distinct species · 4 644 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Cape Melville : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 3 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
178,0km
Lake surface here
3,42km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 608km²
Discharge in basins
26,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 295mm/an
Mean T°
25,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,19
Mean runoff
576mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
84m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Wakooka Creeksub-area701,1 km²overlap485.66 km²29%
- Basin #67520sub-area319,1 km²overlap296.53 km²17%
- Bassin de Birthday Creeksub-area1 426 km²overlap272.16 km²16%
- Bassin de Howick Riversub-area326,8 km²overlap228.67 km²13%
- Bassin de Jeannie Riversub-area482,9 km²overlap167.62 km²10%
- Bassin de Rocky Creeksub-area203,5 km²overlap153.17 km²9%
- Basin #67480sub-area252,3 km²overlap50.04 km²3%
- Bassin de Jack Riversub-area1 608 km²overlap37.42 km²2%
- Bassin de Starcke Riversub-area989,5 km²overlap8.58 km²1%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Jeannie Riverord 3len here27.32 km32%total86 km
- Howick Riverord 3len here24.65 km58%total43 km
- White Water Creekord 2len here22.31 km98%total23 km
- Barramundi Creekord 2len here20.13 km51%total39 km
- Wakooka Creekord 2len here15.68 km32%total49 km
- Saltwater Creekord 2len here14.42 km97%total15 km
- Rocky Creekord 2len here13.85 km96%total14 km
- Sandalwood Creekord 3len here13.11 km38%total34 km
- Sandy Creekord 1len here8.22 km100%total8 km
- Tamulan Creekord 1len here6.18 km100%total6 km
- Dead Dog Creekord 1len here5.34 km59%total9 km
- Jeannie Riverord 1len here3.52 km87%total4 km
2 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -14.38865, 144.47599
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.