The Daintree Rainforest is a tropical rainforest on the north east coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Mossman and Cairns. At around 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi), the Daintree is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian continent. Along the coastline north of the Daintree River, tropical rainforest grows right down to the edge of the sea.The rainforest area, named after Richard Daintree, is loosely defined as the area between the Mossman Gorge and the Bloomfield River. The name is believed to have come about as a result of conservationists, who during the building of a coastal road linking the Daintree area near Cape Tribulation to Cooktown (the Bloomfield Road) in the early 1980s[1] proposed the 'Greater Daintree National Park' which would have encompassed all of the forests in the area, including the Cape Tribulation and Daintree National Parks. Recent extensions to the Daintree National Park have realised this.
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