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Lake Eacham is a maar (a volcanic crater formed by explosions from
overheating groundwater) surrounded by rainforest. A 4.5 km track
around the lake passes many different rainforest communities. At the
start of the track there is evidence of rainforest clearing during
World War II with dominant grey-green wattles in the canopy and a
large number of young rainforest species underneath.
There are at least 100 recorded species of birds in the rainforest,
as well as the small, dark, musky rat-kangaroo, one of the few
species of marsupial active during daytime. |
