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Mon Repos Conservation Park is a national park containing an important turtle rookery located at Mon Repos, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) east of Bundaberg. Mon Repos hosts the largest concentration of nesting marine turtles on the eastern Australian mainland and supports the most significant nesting population of the endangered loggerhead turtle in the South Pacific Ocean. Successful breeding here is critical if the loggerhead species is to survive.[1] In far smaller numbers the flatback and green turtles and, intermittently, the leatherback turtle also nest along the Bundaberg coast.
From November to March each year, adult turtles come ashore to lay eggs on Mon Repos beach. About eight weeks later young turtles emerge from the eggs and begin their journey to the sea. The best time to see turtles nesting is after dark from mid-November to February. Hatchlings usually leave their nests at night from mid-January until late March.[1]
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers operate guided tours nightly during the breeding season.[1] Mon Repos is a popular tourist attraction, with around 25,000 visitors every season.[2] Beach access is now managed during the season to ensure that the impact of humans on nesting sea turtles is minimal.[3]
Mon Repos is French for "My Rest" and was the name of the homestead established by Augustus Purling Barton in 1884. Barton was a pioneer of the Queensland sugar industry.[4][5][6]
In the early 1890s, the French Government in collaboration with the Queensland Government and the New South Wales Government selected Mon Repos beach as the endpoint of an undersea telegraph cable between Australia and New Caledonia. The cable opened in 1893 and connected the telegraph at Bundaberg Post Office through the cable to New Caledonia and then via Fiji and Hawaii to the mainland United States of America. The remains of the cable hut and the radio tower are within the conservation park.[7][8]
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References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Mon Repos Conservation Park". Parks and forests. Queensland Government. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ "Baby turtles emerge in their thousands at Mon Repos". ABC News. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ "About | Mon Repos Conservation Park". Parks and forests. Queensland Government. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
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This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Mon Repos Plantation (23 June 2021) published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 29 June 2021.
- ↑ "South Sea Islander Wall (entry 602230)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ↑ "Family Notices". Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser (Qld. : 1860 - 1947). Qld.: National Library of Australia. 5 January 1885. p. 2. Archived from the original on 14 January 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
- ↑ "History of Mon Repos cable station". BRC Now. Bundaberg Regional Council. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ "Mon Repos Cable Station Remains" (PDF). Bundaberg Regional Council. p. 52. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
External links
[edit]- Mon Repos Conservation Park
- Mon Repos Plantation John Oxley Library Blog, State Library of Queensland.
- Mon Repos Turtle Centre