Bundjalung National Park
National Park in New South Wales, Australia
The Bundjalung National Park is a 210-square-kilometre (81 sq mi) national park located on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, 554 kilometres (344 mi) north-east of Sydney and 109 kilometres (68 mi) from Byron Bay. It protects an area of coastal plain, heathland and solitary beaches between the towns of Iluka and Evans Head.
The park is named for the Bundjalung Nation who are its traditional owners and it contains sites and places of significance to the Bundjalung people.
The park features coffee rock formations that can be found on the beaches at its northern end.
Background
Along the Iluka peninsula coast at the southern end of the park are a number of closely spaced headlands that create small crescent shaped beaches of white sand. Each headland features rock platforms cut by waves and contain rock pools that are havens for intertidal marine life.
Facilities in the park include camping areas at Black Rocks (a nature-based camping area with minimal facilities, adjacent to Ten Mile Beach near where the coffee rock is found) and at Woody Head (which provides amenities including hot showers, cabins and a kiosk).
The park contains six picnic areas: Gummi Garra near Evans Head and Shark Bay, Old Ferry Crossing, Back Beach, Frazers Reef and Iluka Bluff on the Iluka Peninsula.
The north-eastern portion of the park contains an exclusion zone utilised by the RAAF as an active bombing range and public access is restricted. The bombing range has been in use since World War II as a training facility for target practice.
The public source identifies “Bundjalung National Park” as national Park in New South Wales, Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bundjalung, National and Park.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1009360. VIAF identifies the subject as 315529740. Authority coordinates are -29.332, 153.334. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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