Visit our caring for wildlife page for more information on interacting with and protecting our native animals.īen Lomond National Park lies within the Tasmanian Aboriginal Ben Lomond nation. Other wildlife to look out for includes Forester kangaroos, especially along the south-west edge of the park, potoroos, eastern quolls, echidnas and platypus.įor more information on our wildlife please see Tasmania's wildlife.
Bennetts wallabies and wombats are a common sight around the alpine village, and pademelons are abundant. The reduction of natural vegetation since colonisation in North-East Tasmania means that the Ben Lomond National Park plays an increasingly important role in regional wildlife conservation. The effects of these glaciers account for much of the contrast between the alpine scenery of Ben Lomond, which includes vast dolerite boulders and scree fields, and that of the other mountains in the north-east. The only exception is a narrow seam of coal under Coalmine Crag and around the flanks of the Ben Lomond Plateau, which was once worked commercially.ĭuring the Pleistocene Ice Age, a small ice-cap existed on Ben Lomond, which was the only plateau in the North-East to be glaciated. These were intruded by granite and, later, during the Jurassic Period, by dolerite. The basement rocks comprise slates, siltstones, greywackes and quartzite. The park is dominated by an alpine plateau over 1500 metres high and surrounded on all sides by steep escarpments. Ben Lomond National Park is effectively a dolerite island in a sea of agricultural and forested lowlands.
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