Ranger Cabin
The place
Ranger Cabin in Girringun National Park, Cardwell/Ingham area (Wet Tropics, Queensland, Australia), at 920 m elevation, on the tropical-coast side of the Great Dividing Range. New Australia Queensland Wet Tropics cluster, first appearing in batch 353. Rangers' cabin in Girringun NP (Wet Tropics, UNESCO 1988, 8,940 km², 100-million-year-old rainforests, the world's oldest surviving continental rainforest from ancient Gondwana + 65 endemic bird species including the cassowary Casuarius casuarius, the world's 3rd-largest bird, 1.8 m, 80 kg + Ficus watkinsiana, the strangler fig, an epiphyte), heritage of the Girramay-Jirrbal (an Aboriginal people speaking Dyirbal, a language featuring the rare Bora Cape Grafton noun-class system marking non-human masculine/feminine animacy + the Bama peoples, "Rainforest Aboriginal People", with 200 million years — read: a very long history — of rainforest occupation).
The setting
Girringun NP Cardwell/Ingham Wet Tropics QLD AU 920 m Great Dividing Range tropical coast side, new cluster batch 353, ranger cabin Girringun NP Wet Tropics UNESCO 1988 8,940 km² 100-million-year-old rainforests world's oldest surviving continental rainforest Gondwana + 65 endemic bird species Casuarius casuarius world's 3rd-largest bird 1.8 m 80 kg + Ficus watkinsiana strangler fig epiphyte, Girramay-Jirrbal Dyirbal Bora rare noun-class system non-human masc/fem animate + Bama Rainforest Aboriginal People long-standing rainforest occupation.
