Nannup WA Geopark
Incorporated in 2024, the Nannup WA Geopark has been making significant steps towards its geopark status. Striving to become a UNESCO Global Geopark, Nannup is an area of rich abiotic, biotic, and cultural significance with many special attributes.
The geology of the area ranges over 2 billion years.
- Includes lava flows of 220 km running along two 130 million year old valleys.
- Basalt lava flowed from well to the south of Black Point, past Nannup, to the north of Bunbury.
- Up to 9 km of sediments deposited from Antartica during the time of the dinosaurs – between 100 and 300 million years ago.
- Much older metamorphic rocks, over 2,600 million years old and more than half the total age of Earth.
The Nannup WA Geopark contains large and intact natural areas with significant features.
- Sits within the South-west of Australian Ecoregion, one of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots.
- Over 85% of the land is covered by native vegetation, including Eucalypt forests and woodlands containing endemic flora and fauna with Gondwana links.
- 30% of the vegetation is reserved as National Park and a further 60% is State Forest where native timber is protected from logging.
- The Gingilgp-Jasper Wetlands is of national significance and the South-west’s greatest river, the Blackwood.
- Over 200 km2 of marine environment.
The Nannup WA Geopark area is a place of rich cultural heritage.
- Nannup (stopping place) has been occupied and managed by the Noongar peoples for over 40,000 years.
- European settlement has played an important part in shaping the area as it is today.
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