Protected area in South Australia
| Gower Conservation Park South Australia | |
|---|---|
| IUCN category III (natural monument or feature) | |
  Gower Conservation Park | |
| Nearest town or city | Tantanoola |
| Coordinates | 37°42′48″S 140°31′03″E / 37.7132°S 140.5176°E / -37.7132; 140.5176 |
| Established | 21 January 1971 (1971-01-21) |
| Area | 40 hectares (99 acres) |
| Managing authorities | Department for Environment and Water |
| See also | Protected areas of South Australia |
Gower Conservation Park (formerly the Gower National Parks Reserve) is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Tantanoola about 353 kilometres (219 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north west of the regional city of Mount Gambier.
The conservation park occupies land in section 517 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Hindmarsh. It was proclaimed as a national park on 21 January 1971 under the National Parks Act 1966 and was given the name of Gower National Parks Reserve. On 27 April 1972, it was renamed as the Gower Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 which repealed the former act along with other statutes concerned with conservation. As of 2016, it covered an area of 40 hectares (99 acres).
In 1980, it was considered to be significant because it was “an area representative of The eucalypt Forest (sic) which would once have covered much of the lower south east of South Australia.”
In 1990, the conservation park was described as having a landscape of “undulating consolidated calcarenite dunes are overlain by brown/grey, weakly-structured sandy soils” with “some limestone outcrops located in the central and southern parts (of the conservation park) in association with rough barked manna gum”. The vegetation cover was described as “mainly an open forest of messmate stringybark… and brown stringybark… with a shrub understorey of austral bracken… and a sparse shrub layer of spike wattle…, grass tree… and some silver leaved banksia… ” with “a stand of rough barked manna gum and some large black wattle… “ in southern end of the conservation park.
The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area. In 1980, it was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.
See also
References
- ^ "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ "Search results for 'Gower Conservation Park' with the following datasets selected – 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Hundreds', 'Roads' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ "Protected Areas Information System Reserve List" (PDF). Government of South Australia. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ "Gower Conservation Park, Up and Down Rocks via Tantanoola, SA, Australia (Place ID 8310)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government.
- ^ South Australia. Department of Environment and Planning, National Parks and Wildlife Service, South East District (October 1990), Sutherland, Andrea (ed.), Small parks of the Lower South East Management Plans : South East South Australia (PDF), South Australia. Department of Environment and Planning, pp. 3 and 11, ISBN 978-0-7308-0481-9
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Shard, A. J. (21 January 1971). "NATIONAL PARKS ACT, 1966: HUNDRED OF HINDMARSH—GOWER NATIONAL PARKS RESERVE" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 186. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- "No. 56 of 1972 (National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1972)". The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 660 & 701. 27 April 1972. Retrieved 21 February 2018.