AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA.

National Parks.
Girraween National Park, Queensland.
Sixth stamp in a set of 7. issued on 09.04.1979.
Face value: 20 cents of Australian dollar.
Design: Max Robinson (1934-2018).
Printed by Ashier & Co., Melbourne.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 27 x 38 mm.

Catalogs
- Brusden-White No. 842.
- Michel No. 678.
- Scott No. 705.
- Seven Seas Stamps No. 731.
- StampWorld No. 677.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 713.
- Unificato No. 718.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 660.

Girraween National Park is an area of the Granite Belt in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, reserved as a national park established on October 21, 1977. The área of the park is 117 km² (45.2 sq mi). The southern boundary of the park is the state border between Queensland and New South Wales. Girraween is an Aboriginal word meaning "place of flowers" and the best time to see the local flora is late in July when the Golden Wattle blooms. The park has abundant fauna, including some that are rarely seen elsewhere in Queensland, such as the common wombat, spotted quoll, lyrebird and the turquoise parrot. The area is the only place where the Wallangarra whitegums grow.