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Bicton Hill (Clump Mountain) National Park is a small coastal section overlooking Mission Beach and Bingil Bay. It contains some of the few remaining patches of undisturbed tropical lowland rainforest in north Queensland. This forest type once grew extensively throughout these coastal lowlands but, due to clearing for farming, little now remains. These remnants are important habitat for the endangered southern cassowary, a large flightless bird found only in the tropical rainforests of Queensland and New Guinea. Bicton Hill is the main feature of Clump Mountain National Park. A circuit walking track up this moderately steep hill offers visitors spectacular mainland and island views, and a chance to see rare rainforest plants and the elusive endangered southern cassowary.

Clump Mountain National Park has historical significance for both Indigenous and European people. It is part of the traditional country of the Djiru Aboriginal people. Nearby Bingil Bay was a favourite camping spot and rainforest plants were used by the Djiru to make fish nets, shelters, tools, weapons and medicines. The summit of Bicton Hill was used as a lookout by the Djiru Aboriginal people and later as a ship lookout by the Cutten brothers, the area's first permanent European residents. They named their property Bicton after the town in Devon, England.

Unfortunately no camping is prohibited in Clump Mountain National park.

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Things to do
*Walk the Bicton Hill circuit track (3.9km return). The track begins on Bicton Hill's exposed eastern side, where sturdy trees such as brush box and swamp mahogany grow *Bicton Hill is a great place for watching wildlife. See rainforest skinks, lace monitors & the brilliant blue Ulysses butterfly *Go birdwatching. See a buff-breasted paradise-kingfisher or an endangered southern cassowary *Between October & March view the evening spectacle of migratory pied imperial-pigeons returning to the islands *Go spotlighting at night to see striped possums feeding *Visit nearby Tam O'Shanter National Park & enjoy walks through different types of lowland rainforests including fan palm forest *Walk the coastal Kennedy walking track adjacent to Hull River National Park at South Mission Beach
Location
*Located 215km north of Townsville or 134km south of Cairns

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Location

Wylie Rd
off Bingil Bay Rd
Mission beach QLD

Additional Info*Located 215km north of Townsville or 134km south of Cairns
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