Dorrigo National Park Gondwana Rainforests

Dorrigo National Park is one of fifty reserves in the World Heritage Listed Gondwana Rainforests of Australia stretching from the north coast of New south Wales to the southeast coast of Queensland. If you had been standing there 18 million years ago you would have been standing on the Ebor Volcano, one of a series of active volcanos along the east coast estimated to have been about 45 kilometres across, but when it erupted it spewed lava over an area of 480 kilometres, up to 400 metres thick, creating what we know as the Dorrigo Plateau. Today, Dorrigo National Park is 8,000 hectares of sub-tropical rainforest, home to 30 types of mammals, more than 128 kinds of birds and 44 species of amphibians and reptiles. It's part of the Waterfall Way which stretches from Dorrigo to Armidale on the New England Tablelands. More importantly it's part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, described by NSW National Parks as "a direct window into the past and the future, a link to the ancient pre-human world and a stunning and irreplaceable record of life on our planet".