Desert Camp Conservation Park

Desert Camp Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)
Desert Camp Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Keith.
Coordinates	36°29′02″S 140°21′07″E / 36.4840°S 140.3519°E / -36.4840; 140.3519Coordinates: 36°29′02″S 140°21′07″E / 36.4840°S 140.3519°E / -36.4840; 140.3519
Established	27 June 1967 (1967-06-27)^[1]
Area	51 hectares (130 acres)^[1]
Visitation	‘limited’ (in 1992)^[2]
Managing authorities	Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Footnotes	Coordinates^[3] Nearest town^[4] Managing authority^[1]
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Desert Camp Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s Limestone Coast in the gazetted locality of Marcollat about 44 kilometres (27 mi) south of the town centre in Keith.^[4]

The conservation park occupies land in sections 87 and 105 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Marcollat on the northern side of Rowney Road which is also known as the Kingston - Keith road. The land originally gained protected area status in 1967, when section 87 was gazetted as the Desert Camp National Park. Section 105 came in existence about 14 months later after work to Rowney Road resulted in it being “severed … from an adjoining lease.” Section 105 was subsequently added in 1968 to the conservation park. In 1972, the national park was renamed as the Desert Camp Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.^[2]

In 1992, the conservation park was described as follows:^[2]

(It) is located in the Angle Rock Environmental Association… This association is characterised by interdunal plains with occasional low narrow dune ridges and isolated granite outcrops. Soils are moderately deep, alkaline, sandy, pedal, mottled-yellow duplex soils… These soils support an open woodland of pink gum (Eucalyptus fasciculosa) over a heath understorey of mallee honey-myrtle (Melaleuca brevifolia). broombush (M. uncinata), austral grass tree (Xanthorrhoea australis), slaty sheoak (Allocasuarina muelleriana) and desert hakea (Hakea muelleriana).

As of 1992, there was “limited visitation” with the main visitor groups being “bird observers and field naturalists”.^[2]

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.^[3]

References

1 2 3 "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 11 July 2016)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
1 2 3 4 South Australia. National Parks and Wildlife Service. South East District; Sutherland, Andrea; South Australia. National Parks and Wildlife Service (1992), Small parks of the upper South East management plans, South East, South Australia (PDF), Dept. of Environment and Planning, pp. 12–13, ISBN 978-0-7308-2665-1
1 2 "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (see 'DETAIL' tab)". CAPAD 2014. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
1 2 "Search result(s) for Desert Camp Conservation Park (Record No. SA0019822) with the following layers being selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 24 December 2016.

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Entry for Desert Camp Conservation Park on Protected Planet

Protected areas of South Australia
National parks	Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary 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 Bangham Barwell Bascombe Well Baudin Baudin Rocks Beachport Beatrice Islet Beyeria Big Heath Billiatt Bird Islands Black Hill Boondina Breakaways Busby Islet Butchers Gap Calpatanna Waterhole Cap Island Cape Blanche Cape Gantheaume Cape Willoughby Caralue Bluff Carappee Hill Carpenter Rocks Carribie Chadinga Cleland Clements Gap Clinton Cocata Cooltong Corrobinnie Hill Cox Scrub Custon Cygnet Estuary Danggali Darke Range Dingley Dell Deep Creek Desert Camp Douglas Point Dudley Eba Island Ediacara Elliot Price Eric Bonython Ewens Ponds Fairview Ferguson Ferries-McDonald Finniss Fort Glanville Fowlers Bay Franklin Harbor Gambier Islands Gawler Ranges Giles Goose Island Grass Tree Greenly Island Guichen Bay Gum Laqoon Hacks Lagoon Hale Hallett Cove Heggaton Hincks Horsnell Gully Ironstone Hill Kaiserstuhl Kapunda Island Kathai Kellidie Bay Kelly Hill Kelvin Powrie Kenneth Stirling Kinchina Kulliparu Lake Gilles Lake Newland Lashmar Lathami Laura Bay Lawari Lesueur Leven Beach Lincoln Lipson Island Little Dip Malgra Mamungari Mantung Marino Martindale Hall Mary Seymour Media Island Middlecamp Hills Minlacowie Moana Sands Monarto Woodlands Montacute Moody Tank Morialta Mount Brown Mount Dutton Bay Mount Magnificent Mount Scott Mount Taylor Mullinger Swamp Munyaroo Murrunatta Nene Valley Nepean Bay Neptune Islands Newland Head Nicolas Baudin Island Ngarkat Nuyts Archipelago Nuyts Reef Olive Island Para Wirra Paranki Lagoon Parndana Peachna Peebinga Penambol Penguin Island Pelican Lagoon Pigface Island Pine Hill Soak Point Bell Point Davenport Point Labatt Piccaninnie Ponds Pinkawillinie Port Gawler Pualco Range Pullen Island Pureba Ramsay Rilli Island Rocky Island (North) Rocky Island (South) Roonka Rudall Salt Lagoon Islands Sceale Bay Scott Creek Seal Bay Searcy Bay Seddon Shannon Sheoak Hill Simpson Simpson Desert Sinclair Island Sir Joseph Banks Group Sleaford Mere Spring Gully Talapar Talisker Tallaringa Telford Scrub Telowie Gorge The Dutchmans Stern The Pages The Plug Range Torrens Island Troubridge Island Tucknott Scrub Tumby Island Venus Bay Verran Tanks Vivonne Bay Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Wahgunyah Waitpinga Waldegrave Islands Wanilla Wanilla Land Settlement Warrenben West Island Wharminda Whidbey Isles Whyalla Wiljani Wills Creek Winninowie Wittelbee Yeldulknie Yumbarra
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 Buckleboo Bunbury Bunkers Cortlinye Cox Scrub Cunyarie Desert Camp Hardings Springs Lacroma Moongi Mootra Pinkawillinie Reservoir Poolgarra Tola Former conservation reserves
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-St Kilda Blanche Harbour-Douglas Bank Coobowie Goose Island Great Australian Bight Marine Park Whale Sanctuary Point Labatt Port Noarlunga Reef Seal Bay St Kilda – Chapman Creek Troubridge Hill West Island Encounter Bay Whyalla - Cowleds Landing Yatala Harbour
Other protected areas	Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary Arkaroola Protection Area

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