A Paperbark tree and a Cycad plant in the Eucalyptus forest within the Carnarvon Gorge National Park in the Central Highlands of Queensland in Austra

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A Paperbark tree and a Cycad plant in the Eucalyptus forest within the Carnarvon Gorge National Park in the Central Highlands of Queensland in Australia. A Paperbark tree got its name from the bark, which can be pulled off the tree trunk like sheets of paper. Carnarvon Gorge's landscape have largely been shaped by water erosion and is renown for its towering white sandstone cliffs, high above the winding Carnarvon Creek, cutting its way through rainforest for approximately 30 kilometres into the outback. Scottish explorer, Thomas Mitchell visited the Gorge in the 1840s, and named it after a Welsh coastal town, Caernarfon in the United Kingdom

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Size: 2848px × 4288px
Location: Carnvarvon Gorge,Queensland,Australia
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: australian, carnarvon, central, eucalyptus, forest, gorge, highlands, national, native, paperbark, park, rainforest, tree, tropical