Wiltshire Butler National Park

Witler Butler National Park
Coordinates: 34 ° 2 ′ 24 ″  S , 115 ° 28 ′ 48 ″  E
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Surface:	116.45 km²
Founding:	2004

The Wiltshire Butler National Park (English: Wiltshire Butler National Park ) is a national park in southwest Australia , around 267 kilometers south of Perth , the capital of Western Australia . It is located 20 kilometers southeast of Nannup in the Shire of Nannup and 35 miles southeast of Margaret River .

Like the bordering Blackwood River National Park to the west , the Blackwood River flows through it. The area was declared a national park in 2004.

Surname

The name of the wooded park goes back to John Francis Witler-Butler, who was killed in a bush fire in 1958 .

Gas field

Under the 116.45 km² national park in the south, a gas field is suspected that is to be removed from the national park area in order to explore and exploit it.

Web links

• Official site of the park

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Department of Parks and Wildlife 2013-14 Annual Report (PDF), p. 31, on parliament.wa.gov.au. Retrieved August 18, 2017
2. ↑ Australian Government - CapAd 2014 - WA summary . Terrestrial Protected Areas in Western Australia (2014). DSEWPaC , accessed on August 20, 2017 (English; MS Excel ; 53 kB)
3. ↑ Clause 7. Class A reserve No 47667 in the Shire of Nanning and Augusta Margaret River  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on parliament.wa.gov.au. Retrieved August 18, 2017