Cape Willoughby Conservation Park

Cape Willoughby Conservation Park
South Australia
Cape Willoughby Lightstation
Cape Willoughby Conservation Park is located in South Australia
Cape Willoughby Conservation Park
Cape Willoughby Conservation Park
Nearest town or cityPenneshaw
Coordinates35°50′26″S 138°07′50″E / 35.84056°S 138.13056°E / -35.84056; 138.13056
Established21 January 1971[1]
Area18 ha (44 acres)[1]
Managing authoritiesDepartment for Environment and Water
WebsiteCape Willoughby Conservation Park

Cape Willoughby Conservation Park, formerly part of the Cape Hart Conservation Park, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of the Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island in the gazetted locality of Willoughby about 27 kilometres (17 miles) south east of Penneshaw.[2]

It consists of land in section 412 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Dudley which was part of the former Cape Hart Conservation Park and had been added to the former protected area after 1987. The former protected area had been proclaimed under the National Parks Act 1966 on 21 January 1971 as the Cape Hart National Park and was sub-divided on 28 March 2002 into the Cape Willoughby Conservation Park and the Lesueur Conservation Park.[3][4][5] As of December 2016, it covered an area of 18 hectares (44 acres).[1]

The conservation park consists of land bounded by the coastline to the north and to the east. The Cape Willoughby Lighthouse complex is located at the conservation park's eastern end overlooking the coastline and at the end of a road known as the Cape Willoughby Road. Services for visitors include accommodation in two of the former lighthouse keepers cottages and a walking trail known as the Cape Willoughby Lightstation heritage hike.[6]

As of 2014, the conservation park had not been given an IUCN protected area category.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 17 Feb 2014)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Search result(s) for Cape Willoughby Conservation Park (Record No. SA0084883 ) with the following layers being selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  3. ^ "NATIONAL PARKS ACT, 1966: VARIOUS NATIONAL PARKS DECLARED" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. pp. 186–187. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  4. ^ "NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1972, SECTION 29 (3): CAPE HART CONSERVATION PARK—DIVISION OF PARK INTO CAPE WILLOUGHBY CONSERVATION PARK AND LESUEUR CONSERVATION PARK" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 1442. 28 March 2002. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  5. ^ Anon (1987). Conservation Parks of Kangaroo Island Management Plan (PDF). Adelaide: Department of Environment and Planning, South Australia. pp. 30–34. ISBN 0-7243-8983-0.
  6. ^ "Parks of Kangaroo Island" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 2015. pp. 18 & 32. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (see 'DETAIL' tab)". CAPAD 2014. Australian Government - Department of the Environment. 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015.