Culgoa National Park Culgoa National Park The Culgoa National Park is a protected national park that is located in the north-west region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is located approximately northwest of Sydney. The nearest town is , away. The park's northern boundary is defined by part of the state border between New South Wales and Queensland. The Culgoa River flows through the national park. The national park, with its impressive river red gums and expansive floodplains, is the landscape that is thought to be representative of the Australian outback. The iconic coolabah tree, a native species, covers
John Mungo-Park is buried in Adinkerke Military Cemetery, about 60 miles north of his father. In a twist of fate, Wilhelm Balthasar died in an air crash less than a week later and was buried in a Flanders cemetery alongside his father who had been killed in the First World War. A Bar to Mungo-Park's DFC was announced posthumously on 11 July 1941 with the citation: Mungo-Park had claimed 11 aircraft destroyed (and 2 shared), 5 probables, and 4 damaged. Thanks to the efforts of Belgian Johny Recour, who had witnessed Mungo-Park's crash as a boy, a memorial service was held on