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William Ernest Giles was the first European man to pass through the area and camped to the south of Woodroffe on September 7, 1873. William Christie Gosse had previously named it Mt Woodroffe on July 20 that same year. [3] Woodroffe was named after George Woodroffe Goyder, Surveyor-General of South Australia and an early Australian explorer. [4]
Mount Anne: TAS Southwest National Park: 38 Mount Barrow: 1,414 807 Legges Tor: TAS Tasmanian Northern Slopes, nr Launceston: 39 Mount Weld: 1,345 806 Mount Anne: TAS Southwest National Park: 40 Federation Peak: 1,225 805 Mount Picton: TAS Southwest National Park, Arthur Range: 41 Mount Dryander: 820 793 Mount William: QLD Whitsunday Region: 42 ...
The Napperby Block, formerly within Mount Remarkable Conservation Park, is a parcel of land of 16.72 km 2 (6.46 sq mi), located immediately east of the town of Napperby, about 4 km (2.5 mi) south of the Telowie Gorge Conservation Park and about 12 km (7.5 mi) north-east of the city of Port Pirie. Added in 1993, it is not contiguous with the ...
As of 2022 the national park comprises more than 14,879 ha (36,770 acres), and includes a vast network of Murray River wetlands and floodplains. [ 5 ] The national park was proclaimed on 20 June 1991 under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 , [ 6 ] "to conserve a significant proportion of South Australia’s floodplain environments which ...
Nullarbor Regional Reserve is a protected area in South Australia located about 300 kilometres (190 miles) west of Ceduna.. Its boundaries are defined by the Trans-Australian Railway to the north and by the Nullarbor National Park, the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area and the Yalata Indigenous Protected Area to the south.
On 27 April 1972, the national park was reconstituted as the Western River Conservation Park under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. [8] On 15 October 1993, the majority of its extent was proclaimed under the Wilderness Protection Act 1992 as a wilderness protection area with the remainder being added on the 5 October 2006. [9] [10] [11 ...
Mount Remarkable is a mountain in South Australia located in the Flinders Ranges about 250 kilometres (160 mi) north of the centre of the capital city of Adelaide and immediately north-west of the town of Melrose, which was once named Mount Remarkable itself, and which is located at its base. [1] The mountain has a height of 961 metres (3,153 ...
Karte Conservation Park (formerly Karte National Park) is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the localities of Karte and Parilla about 193 kilometres (120 mi) east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 26 kilometres (16 mi) north-west of the town of Pinnaroo.