Caralue Bluff Conservation Park Explained

Type:protected
Caralue Bluff Conservation Park
State:sa
City:Caralue
Iucn Category:VI
Iucn Ref:[1]
Coordinates:-33.2553°N 136.2046°W
Relief:yes
Pushpin Label Position:left
Nearest Town Or City:Kimba.
Area:21.57
Area Footnotes:[2]
Footnotes:Nearest town[3]
Managing authority

Caralue Bluff Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Caralue about south-west of the town centre in Kimba.[3]

The land now within the conservation park first received protected area status on 9 December 1993 as a conservation reserve under the Crown Lands Act 1929 as the ‘Caralue Bluff Conservation Reserve‘ in respect to the following land in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Caralue - "allotment 2 of Deposited Plan No. 37135". This land was formerly a part of the 'Caralue Bluff Water Conservation Reserve'.[4] [5] On 6 September 2012, the land forming the conservation reserve and an adjacent parcel of land were constituted as the ‘Caralue Bluff Conservation Park’ under the state's National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.[6]

Its name was ultimately derived from Caralue Bluff, a feature located to the south-west of the conservation park.[7] [8] As of June 2016, the conservation park covered an area of .[3] [2]

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

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab) . CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE) . 21 February 2018 . 2016.
  2. Web site: Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 11 July 2016) . Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 11 July 2016 . 14 July 2016.
  3. Web site: Search result(s) for Caralue Bluff Conservation Park (Record No. SA0058762) with the following layers being selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels" . Government of South Australia . Property Location Browser . 4 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 . dmy-all .
  4. Web site: Search result(s) for Caralue Bluff Conservation Reserve (Record No. SA0048486) . Government of South Australia . Property Location Browser . 5 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 . dmy-all .
  5. CROWN LANDS ACT, 1929: SECTION 5, The First Schedule . The South Australian Government Gazette . 9 December 1993. 2887. 5 January 2017 . Government of South Australia.
  6. National Parks and Wildlife (Caralue Bluff Conservation Park) Proclamation 2012 . The South Australian Government Gazette . 6 September 2012 . 4343. 5 January 2017 . Government of South Australia.
  7. Web site: Search result(s) for Caralue Bluff (Record No. SA0012267) . Government of South Australia . Property Location Browser . 5 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 . dmy-all .
  8. Web site: Caralue, Hundred of; Nomenclature . Place Names of South Australia . State Library of South Australia . 5 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120920073450/http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/c/c2.htm#caralueH . 20 September 2012 . dmy-all .

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