Witjira National Park
Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox protected area Witjira National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia about 987 kilometres (613 miles) north of the state capital of Adelaide.[1]
History
The national park was proclaimed on 21 November 1985 to "protect Australia’s largest array of artesian springs: the nationally significant Dalhousie Mound Springs complex".[2][1] In 2007, it became the first protected area in South Australia to have formal joint management arrangements between its traditional owners and the Government of South Australia.[1]
The extent of land occupied by the national park was gazetted as a locality in April 2013 under the name "Witjira".[3]
On 26 November 2021, the government changed the conditions of the park, to forever exclude mining in the Dalhousie Springs National Heritage Area.[4]
Description
As of 2018, it covered an area of 7,726.73 square kilometres (2,983.31 sq mi).[5]
The national park is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area.[6] It was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate during or after 1998.[7]
The historic Dalhousie Homestead Ruins, from the former Dalhousie Station, lie within the national park and are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.[8]
See also
References
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- ↑ Speirs, David (26 November 2021). "SA now home to Australia's biggest national park". Premier of South Australia. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021. File:CC-BY icon.svg Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under a Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU) licence.
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- ↑ "Dalhousie Homestead Ruins, Witjira National Park". South Australian Heritage Register. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
External links
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