Innes National Park

Innes National Park
Ethel Beach in Innes National Park
Coordinates: 35 ° 13 ′ 40 ″  S , 136 ° 53 ′ 41 ″  E
Location:	South Australia , Australia
Specialty:	Coastal landscape
Surface:	94.15 km²
Founding:	1970
Lighthouse at Cape Spencer

The Innes National Park (English Innes National Park ) is located in the state of South Australia of Australia , about 300 kilometers from Adelaide . It has an area of ​​9415 hectares and was placed under protection in January 1970.

General

Innes National Park is at the tip of the Yorke Peninsula . Here you will find a spectacular coastal landscape that has many natural habitats and yet offers a whole range of leisure activities. Originally it was placed under protection in order to preserve the habitat of the rare and endangered songbird species Psophodes nigrogularis .

In the park you meet the landscapes coastal heath , Mallee , open grasslands, beaches , sandbars , Kasuarinenwälder and rocky cliffs on.

history

Originally this area was settled by the Aboriginal tribe of the Narrunga . The first European settlers took land around Cape Spencer for sheep grazing around 1847. The national park is named after William Robert Innes, who found economically usable deposits of gypsum in the area at the beginning of the 20th century , which were then also exploited until around 1930.

Flora and fauna

So far, around 140 species of birds have been identified in the national park, including emu , osprey , peregrine falcon , little penguin and wedge tailed eagle . Also noteworthy are the occurrences of the thermometer chicken and the endangered caped plover, which only occurs in Australia . The once widespread Derby wallaby suffered a severe population decline in the first half of the last century, but has a stable population in Innes National Park. Reptiles are represented by the species brown snake , pine cone lizard and eastern bearded dragon .

• Bird species in Bago Bluff National Park
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  emu

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  Little penguin

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  Wedge-tailed eagle

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  Thermometer chicken

So far, the occurrence of over 330 naturally occurring plant species in the national park has also been documented, 115 of which are particularly in need of protection.

tourism

There is a visitor center in the park, campsites, rest areas and toilets are also available. Various hiking trails open up the various landscapes to visitors and lead to interesting viewpoints. From Stenhouse Bay and Cape Spencer one can in the winter months Südkaper observed.

Web links

Commons : Innes National Park  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Official website

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Official website of the park. In: Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Accessed January 21, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} History of the Park ( Memento from April 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ List of species of birds in the national park. (PDF) Department for Environment and Heritage, accessed on January 21, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Explanations of the fauna and flora ( memento of October 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Species list of plants in the national park (Interim Flora Species List). (PDF) (No longer available online.) Department for Environment and Heritage, archived from the original on January 21, 2016 ; accessed on January 21, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Bushwalking ( Memento from October 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )