Mount Brown Conservation Park

Mount Brown Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
Mount Brown Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Quorn
Coordinates	32°29′24.4″S 138°1′58.8″E / 32.490111°S 138.033000°E / -32.490111; 138.033000Coordinates: 32°29′24.4″S 138°1′58.8″E / 32.490111°S 138.033000°E / -32.490111; 138.033000
Established	4 November 1993 (1993-11-04)^[1]
Area	22.64 km² (8.7 sq mi)^[1]
Managing authorities	Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Website	Mount Brown Conservation Park
Footnotes	Coordinates^[1]^[2]
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Mount Brown Conservation Park is a protected area in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. The park has established walking trails, including a section of the Heysen trail. The park is managed by the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources; entry is free. It is located 14 km (8.7 mi) south of Quorn and about 300 km (190 mi) north of the nearest airport at Adelaide.

History

The Flinders Ranges were initially charted in 1802 by Matthew Flinders while aboard the survey ship HMS Investigator. Matthew Flinders had been tasked by Sir Joseph Banks to investigate the possibility of a sea route into or through the continent. HMS Investigator dropped anchor at the head of Spencer Gulf on 10 March 1802, but did not find any evidence of such a passage.

Mount Brown is named in honour of Robert Brown, the ship's botanist, who climbed the mountain and viewed Willochra Plain.^[3] It is one of the tallest peaks in the Range, standing at 964 metres (3,163 ft). The ship's landscape artist, Robert Westall, sketched Mount Brown in a view of three prominent peaks as seen from the ship.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "CAPAD 2012 South Australia Summary (see 'DETAIL' tab)". CAPAD 2012. Australian Government - Department of the Environment. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
↑ "Mount Brown Conservation Park". protectedplanet.net.
↑ Flinders, Matthew (1966) [1814]. A Voyage to Terra Australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner; with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. (Facsimile ed.). Adelaide; Facsimile reprint of: London : G. and W. Nicol, 1814 ed. In two volumes, with an Atlas (3 volumes): Libraries Board of South Australia. p. 242. Retrieved 5 January 2014.

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

Mount Brown Conservation Park

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