Guichen Bay Conservation Park

Guichen Bay Conservation Park
South Australia
Guichen Bay Conservation Park
Nearest town or city Robe
Coordinates 37°5′16″S 139°46′50″E / 37.08778°S 139.78056°E / -37.08778; 139.78056Coordinates: 37°5′16″S 139°46′50″E / 37.08778°S 139.78056°E / -37.08778; 139.78056
Established 27 July 1967 (1967-07-27)[1]
Area 1.27 km2 (0.5 sq mi)[1]
Managing authorities Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
See also Protected areas of South Australia

Guichen Bay Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia overlooking Guichen Bay located in the gazetted locality of Mount Benson about 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) north of the town centre of Robe.[2] While protected status was first conferred to the land in 1967, its current status as a conservation park under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 was proclaimed in 1972. The following statements sourced respectively from the conservation park’s management plan and the now-discontinued Register of the National Estate summarises its conservation significance:

The Park contains some of the Guichen Bay beach ridge plain; a classic example of Holocene beach ridge development of worldwide interest which records the naturalhistory of the Bay over the last 7000 years.
Because of its inaccessibility this Park is rarely visited by people. The fairly dense coastal heath provides a home for the secretive DASYORNIS BROADBENTI (rufous bristle bird), while along the seashore dotterels and oystercatchers are common.

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.[3][4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 17 Feb 2014)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Search result for "Guichen Bay Conservation Park" (Record no. SA0028362) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "CAPAD 2012 South Australia Summary (see 'DETAIL' tab)". CAPAD 2012. Australian Government - Department of the Environment. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  4. ↑ Small Coastal Parks of the South East Management Plan (PDF). National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment and Planning, South Australia. 1994. p. 19. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Register of the National Estate (Non-statutory archive), Guichen Bay Conservation Park, Robe, SA, Australia". Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Environment. Retrieved 27 October 2014.


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