Carappee Hill Conservation Park

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Carappee Hill Conservation Park
South Australia
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Carappee Hill Conservation Park
Nearest town or city Darke Peake.
Coordinates 33°25′01″S136°15′46″E / 33.4170°S 136.2628°E / -33.4170; 136.2628 [1]
Established30 August 1973 (1973-08-30) [2]
Area8.50 km2 (3.3 sq mi) [2]
Managing authorities Department for Environment and Water
FootnotesNearest town [3]
Managing authority [2]
See also Protected areas of South Australia

Carappee Hill Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Darke Peak about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north-east of the town centre in Darke Peak. [3]

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The conservation park was proclaimed on 30 August 1973 under the state's National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 in respect to land in section 104 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Pascoe which had been dedicated as a water conservation reserve since 1955. [4] As of July 2016, the conservation park covered an area of 8.5 square kilometres (3.3 sq mi). [2]

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "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.
  3. 1 2 "Search result(s) for Carappee Hill Conservation Park (Record No. SA0012289) 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. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  4. "CROWN LANDS ACT, 1929-1972 AND THE NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT, 1972: HUNDRED OF PASCOE—WATER CONSERVATION RESERVE RESUMED AND DEDICATED AND CARAPPEE HILL CONSERVATION PARK CONSTITUTED" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 1404. 30 August 1973. Retrieved 4 January 2017.