Talisker Conservation Park

Talisker Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
Talisker mine open cut
Talisker Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Cape Jervis
Coordinates	35°37′20″S 138°09′08″E / 35.62222°S 138.15222°E / -35.62222; 138.15222Coordinates: 35°37′20″S 138°09′08″E / 35.62222°S 138.15222°E / -35.62222; 138.15222
Established	28 November 1985^[1]
Area	2.11 km² (0.8 sq mi)^[1]
Managing authorities	Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Talisker Conservation Park is located on the south-western area of the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. It is close to the town of Cape Jervis and adjacent to Deep Creek Conservation Park. The park covers 211 ha (520 acres) including areas of thick scrub, some steep walking tracks and the heritage-listed remains of a nineteenth century silver and lead mine.^[1]^[2]

History

Talisker became a conservation park in 1976 after a period of 104 years of intermittent mining activity in the area. The park owes its name to the two McLeod brothers who discovered an outcrop of silver-lead ore while searching for gold in 1862.^[3] The Talisker Mining company was formed the same year to extract the ore from the lode the McLeods named the 'Talisker of Scotland' after a locality in their homeland, the 'Isle of Skye'.^[4]

References

1 2 3 "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 17 Feb 2014)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
↑ Tilbrook, Kym (7 March 2003). "Covering the best of our parks". Adelaide Advertiser (News Ltd). Retrieved 24 September 2013.
↑ Tilbrook, Kym (30 April 2006). "They're creatures from the Deep". Sunday Mail (News Ltd). Retrieved 24 September 2013.
↑ Tilbrook, Kym (12 July 2002). "Take a walk on the wild side". Adelaide Advertiser (News Ltd). p. 74. Retrieved 24 September 2013.

External links

Talisker Conservation Park webpage on protected planet

Protected areas of South Australia

National parks	Belair Canunda Coffin Bay Coorong Flinders Chase Ikara-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 Angove 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 Cooltong Cox Scrub Cygnet Estuary Danggali Deep Creek Douglas Point Dudley Eba Island Ediacara Elliot Price Eric Bonython Ewens Ponds Fairview Ferguson 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 Ironstone Hill Kaiserstuhl Kellidie Bay Lake Gilles Lake Newland Lashmar Lathami Laura Bay Lesueur Leven Beach Lincoln Lipson Island Little Dip Mamungari Mantung Marino Martindale Hall Minlacowie Moana Sands Montacute 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 Para Wirra Parndana Peebinga Penguin Island Pelican Lagoon Pigface Island Point Bell Point Davenport Point Labatt Piccaninnie Ponds Pinkawillinie Port Gawler Pualco Range 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 Tallaringa Telowie Gorge The Dutchmans Stern The Pages Torrens Island Troubridge Island Tumby Island Venus Bay Vivonne Bay Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Wahgunyah Waitpinga Waldegrave Islands Warrenben West Island Whidbey Isles Whyalla 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 Blackwood Forest Brownhill Creek Caratoola Cobbler Creek Granite Island Greenhill Long Island O'Halloran Hill Onkaparinga River Shepherds Hill 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 Reef Seal Bay St Kilda – Chapman Creek Troubridge Hill West Island Yatala Harbour

Other protected areas	Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary Arkaroola Protection Area

Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia

Major Townships

Minor Townships

Back Valley
Bald Hills
Bullaparinga
Carrickalinga
Deep Creek
Delamere
Encounter Bay
Hay Flat
Hayborough
Hindmarsh Tiers
Hindmarsh Valley
Inman Valley
Lower Inman Valley
McCracken
Mount Jagged
Myponga Beach
Pages Flat
Parawa
Randalsea
Rapid Bay
Second Valley
Sellicks Hill
Silverton
Spring Mount
Talisker
Torrens Vale
Tunkalilla
Waitpinga
Wattle Flat
Willow Creek
Wirrina Cove

Local Government

Geographical features

Ingalalla Waterfalls

Coastal features

Protected areas

Conservation parks	Deep Creek Eric Bonython Gum Tree Gully Mount Billy Myponga Newland Head Pullen Island Springmount Stipiturus Talisker The Pages Waitpinga West Island Yulte

Recreation parks	Granite Island

Islands adjoining the Fleurieu Peninsula coast

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