Billiatt Conservation Park

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Billiatt Conservation Park
IUCN Category Ia (Strict Nature Reserve)
Nearest town/city:	Alawoona
Coordinates:	(34°59′20″S, 140°28′52″E)
Area:	592.56 km²
Managing authorities:	Department for Environment and Heritage
Official site:	Billiatt Conservation Park

Billiatt Conservation Park (34°55′S 140°34′E) is situated in Australia midway between Alawoona and Lameroo, approximately 200 km east of Adelaide.

The country is characterised by sand dunes with a mosaic of open mallee scrub. Ridge-fruited and red-tipped slender leaf mallees add colour to the dunes with broombrush growing in the mottled shade. Pygmy possums and many birds including the rare western whipbird and red-lored whistler inhabit the area as does the malleefowl. There are also eighteen species of reptile.

Protected areas of South Australia

National Parks: Belair | Canunda | Coffin Bay | Coorong | Flinders Chase | Flinders Ranges | Gawler Ranges | Innes | Lake Eyre | Lake Gairdner | Lake Torrens | Lincoln | Mount Remarkable | Murray River | Naracoorte Caves | Nullarbor | Onkaparinga River | Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges | Witjira Conservation Parks: Acraman Creek | Bascombe Well | Billiatt | Black Hill | Cape Gantheaume | Cleland | Cox Scrub | Danggali | Deep Creek | Fairview | Kelly Hill | Hacks Lagoon | Hambidge | Hincks | Lake Gilles | Marino | Monarto | Morialta | Naracoorte Caves | Ngarkat group | Pinkawillinie | Scott Creek | Seal Bay | Simpson Desert | Spring Gully | Talisker | Tantanoola Caves | Telowie Gorge | Unnamed Wilderness Protection Areas: Cape Bouguer | Cape Gantheaume | Cape Torrens | Ravine des Casoars | Western River Regional Reserves: Chowilla | Innamincka | Lake Frome | Nullarbor | Simpson Desert | Strzelecki | Yellabinna Recreation Parks: Brownhill Creek | Onkaparinga River | Shepherds Hill | Sturt Gorge | Conservation Reserves: Chadinga | Naracoorte Caves Game Reserves: Bool Lagoon