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Cape Melville National Park
Cape Melville
is a
national park
in the
Shire of Cook
,
Queensland, Australia
.
Geography
The park is 1,711
km
northwest of
Brisbane
. Its main
features
are the
rocky
headlands
of
Cape
Melville
,
granite
boulders
of the
Melville Range
and beaches of
Bathurst Bay
.
The national
park was the
site
of a
2013
National Geographic
scientific expedition which
discovered
three
new species
. These were the
Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko
,
Cape Melville shade skink
and the
Blotched boulder-frog
.