Eba Island Conservation Park

Eba Island Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia. It comprises 141 ha of land, proclaimed in 1972 to conserve island habitat within Streaky Bay and sea bird breeding colonies. Eba Island is located 700m offshore and 4 km south of Perlubie Hill. It is entirely composed of calcarenite, often overlaid with a limestone capping.^[1]

Nomenclature

Eba Island may have been named after a clerk in the South Australian Department of Lands or after an acquaintance of Governor MacDonnell.^[1]

Geography

On the south-western, more exposed flanks of the island, waves have undercut the wall and carved blowholes, scalloped ridges and blades of jagged rock into the limestone. On the better-protected northern sides the calcarenite bed is softened by sandy coves, with rock appearing through as headlands.^[1]

Flora & Fauna

Creeping Boobialla (Myoporum parvifolium) is found on Eba Island and is listed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 as Rare. The island is also infested with the introduced African Boxthorn.

Track of Red fox have been found on Eba Island. A connecting sandbar at low tide allows terrestrial animals to cross from the mainland to the island.

A species list of flora and fauna can be found in the Island Parks of Western Eyre Peninsula Management Plan.^[1]

History

The island was once used for agriculture. An abandoned house and several broken fence lines are testaments to the endeavor's failure. Native vegetation is slowly reclaiming the cleared grasslands.

Eba Island Conservation Park was constituted by statute in 1972.

The island was proclaimed a Fauna Reserve in 1966.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Island Parks of Western Eyre Peninsula Management Plan. Adelaide, South Australia: Department of Environment & Heritage. 2006. ISBN 1 921238 18 6.

Protected areas of South Australia

National parks	Belair Canunda Coffin Bay Coorong Flinders Chase Flinders Ranges Gawler Ranges Great Australian Bight Marine Innes Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens Lincoln Malkumba-Coongie Mount Remarkable Murray River Naracoorte Caves Nullarbor Onkaparinga River Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges Witjira

Conservation parks	Acraman Creek Aldinga Scrub Althorpe Islands Avoid Bay Islands Baird Bay Islands Bakara Baudin Baudin Rocks Beachport Beatrice Islet Beyeria Busby Islet Billiatt Bird Islands Black Hill Breakaways Butchers Gap Cap Island Cape Blanche Cape Gantheaume Cape Willoughby Carpenter Rocks Carribie Chadinga Cleland Clinton Cox Scrub Cygnet Estuary Danggali Deep Creek Douglas Point Dudley Eba Island Elliot Price Ewens Ponds Fairview Finniss Fort Glanville Fowlers Bay Franklin Harbor Gambier Islands Giles Goose Island Greenly Island Guichen Bay Gum Laqoon Kelly Hill Hacks Lagoon Hale Hallett Cove Hincks Horsnell Gully Kaiserstuhl Kellidie Bay Lake Gilles Lake Newland Lashmar Lathami Laura Bay Lesueur Leven Beach Lincoln Lipson Island Little Dip Mamungari Marino Martindale Hall Minlacowie Moana Sands Monarto Morialta Mount Brown Mount Dutton Bay Mount Magnificent Mount Taylor Munyaroo Nene Valley Nepean Bay Neptune Islands Newland Head Nicolas Baudin Island Ngarkat Nuyts Archipelago Nuyts Reef Olive Island Parndana Peebinga Penguin Island Pelican Lagoon Pigface Island Point Bell Point Davenport Point Labatt Piccaninnie Ponds Port Gawler The Pages Pullen Island Rocky Island (North) Ramsay Rocky Island (South) Salt Lagoon Islands Sceale Bay Scott Creek Seal Bay Searcy Bay Seddon Simpson Simpson Desert Sinclair Island Sir Joseph Banks Group Sleaford Mere Spring Gully Talisker Torrens Island Troubridge Island Tumby Island Venus Bay Vivonne Bay Wahgunyah Waldegrave Islands Warrenben West Island Whidbey Isles Wills Creek Winninowie Wittelbee

Game reserves	Bool Lagoon Bucks Lake Chowilla Currency Creek Lake Robe Loch Luna Moorook Mud Islands Poocher Swamp Tolderol

Recreation parks	Anstey Hill Brownhill Creek Caratoola Cobbler Creek Granite Island Onkaparinga River Para Wirra Sturt Gorge Totness

Regional Reserves	Chowilla Innamincka Lake Frome Nullarbor Simpson Desert Strzelecki Yellabinna

Conservation reserves	Bernouilli

Wilderness Protection Areas	Billiatt Cape Bouguer Cape Gantheaume Cape Torrens Danggali Hambridge Hincks Investigator Group Memory Cove Nullarbor Nuyts Archipelago Ravine des Casoars Western River Yellabinna

Aquatic reserves	American River Aldinga Reef Bales Beach Barker Inlet Blanche Harbour Coobowie Cowleds Landing Goose Island Great Australian Bight Marine Park Whale Sanctuary Point Labatt Port Noarlunga Seal Bay St Kilda – Chapman Creek Troubridge Hill West Island Yatala Harbour

Other protected areas	Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary Arkaroola Protection Zone

Coordinates: 32°40′40″S 134°16′10″E / 32.67778°S 134.26944°E / -32.67778; 134.26944