Type: | protected |
Basket Swamp National Park | |
State: | nsw |
Iucn Category: | II |
Coordinates: | -28.9331°N 152.1531°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Local Map: | yes |
Zoom: | 10 |
Relief: | 1 |
Area: | 28.2 |
Established: | 1999 |
Managing Authorities: | National Parks and Wildlife Service (New South Wales) |
Url: | http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au |
Basket Swamp is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 558 km north of Sydney, and 15 kilometres north east of Tenterfield.
The park is named after Basket Swamp, a waterlogged area in the western sector of the park.[1]
This wetland plays an important role in the ecosystem of the Clarence River. Basket Swamp cleans, stores and discharges clean water into the surrounding streams that flow into the river.[2]