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Myponga Conservation Park
__NOTOC__ Myponga Conservation Park (formerly the Myponga National Park) is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Myponga, South Australia, Myponga about south of the state capital of Adelaide city centre, Adelaide and about south-south-west of the town of Myponga. The conservation park consists of land in the sections 269 and 270 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Myponga. The land first received protected area status as the ''Myponga National Park'' proclaimed on 24 February 1972 under the ''National Parks Act 1966''. On 27 April 1972, the national park was reconstituted under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'' as the ''Myponga Conservation Park''. As of 2018, it covered an area of . The Heysen Trail, the long-distance walking trail, enters from the south at the south-east corner of section 269 and passes through and along the west side of the section. In 1980, the conservation park was described as follows: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myponga, South Australia
Myponga is a settlement in South Australia. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 744, of whom 393 lived in its town centre. Myponga is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson, and the local government area of the District Council of Yankalilla. History Before British colonisation of South Australia, the Kaurna people occupied the land from the Adelaide plains and southwards down western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, including Myponga. The Kaurna name for the area was Maitpungga. Geoff Manning reports that "according to H.C. Talbot it is derived from the Aboriginal word ''miappunga'' – 'divorced wife'", and Norman Tindale concluded that it probably meant "vegetable food place, from aiand angkara a term applied to swamps & lagoons". However linguist Rob Amery of the University of Adelaide and Kaurna educator Jack Buckskin concluded that it was just a name and does not have a literal translation. One of the first p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |