Lathami Conservation Park

The park protects Glossy Black Cockatoo habitat

Lathami Conservation Park is a nature reserve on the north coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, lying 1 km east of Stokes Bay and about 17 km north of Parndana. It was proclaimed on 1 October 1987 to protect important nesting and foraging habitat for the Glossy Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami), after which the park was named.^[1]

Description

The park has an area of 2364 ha. The southern sector has soils typical of the island’s lateritic plateau, grading northwards into shallow grey-brown sands and rocky outcrops. The two main watercourses, Deep Gully and Gum Creek, cut deeply into the underlying rocks, forming gorges with semi-permanent waterholes along parts of their lengths.^[1]

On the higher parts of the park, the vegetation is mainly a tall shrubland of Eucalyptus baxteri over Xanthorrhoea tateana, Melaleuca uncinata and Allocasuarina muelleriana, interspersed with E. cladocalyx woodland. The lower eaches are characterised by an open forest of E. cladocalyx and E. leucoxylon, with areas of A. verticillata woodland near the coast.^[1]

Kangaroo Island

Major townships

Beaches

American Beach
Baudin Beach
Browns Beach
D'Estrees Bay
Emu Bay
Island Beach
Nepean Bay
Snelling Beach
Stokes Bay
Vivonne Bay

Coastal features

Protected areas

National parks	Flinders Chase

Conservation parks	Baudin Beatrice Islet Beyeria Busby Islet Cape Gantheaume Cape Willoughby Cygnet Estuary Dudley Kelly Hill Lashmar Lathami Lesueur Mount Taylor Nepean Bay Parndana Pelican Lagoon Seal Bay Seddon Simpson Vivonne

Aquatic reserves	American River Bales Beach Seal Bay

Wilderness Protection Areas	Cape Bouguer Cape Gantheaume Cape Torrens Ravine des Casoars Western River

Islands adjacent to Kangaroo Island coast

Related and uncategorised

Kangaroo Island wine region

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

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Anon (1992). Beyeria and Lathami Conservation Parks Management Plan (PDF). Adelaide: Department of Environment and Planning, South Australia. ISBN 0-7308-2674-0.

Coordinates: 35°42′00″S 136°54′30″E / 35.70000°S 136.90833°E / -35.70000; 136.90833