Alfred National Park Alfred National Park The Alfred National Park is a national park located in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. The national park is situated approximately east of Melbourne and was declared in 1925. The park is dissected by the Princes Highway, between and . The park reserves examples of warm temperate rainforest, particularly the jungle of Mount Drummer. Compared to the tropical rainforests of Queensland and New South Wales, this is a floristically depauperate forest, representing as it does the southern limit of this flora. This region is biogeographically interesting as the meeting point between the
Mungo Park (explorer) the River Niger in Jebba, Nigeria. The Royal Scottish Geographical Society award the Mungo Park Medal annually in Park's honour. Mungo Park appears as one of the two protagonists in "Water Music" by T. C. Boyle. Mungo Park (explorer) Mungo Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. He was the first Westerner known to have travelled to the central portion of the Niger River. He wrote a popular and influential travel book about it titled "Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa". Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland, at Foulshiels on the Yarrow