Guichen Bay Conservation Park (formerly the Guichen Bay National Park) is a

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in the Australian state of

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overlooking

Guichen Bay Guichen Bay, (French: Baie de Guichen) is a bay located on the south-east coast of the Australian state of South Australia about northwest of the regional city of Mount Gambier and about south-southeast of the state capital of Adelaide. It wa ...

located in the gazetted locality of Mount Benson about north of the town centre of

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. The conservation park consists of land in sections 360, 361, 555, 575 and 576 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Waterhouse. Sections 360 and 361 were proclaimed on 27 July 1976 as the ''Guichen Bay National Park'' under the ''National Parks Act 1966''. On 27 April 1972, it was reconstituted as the ''Guichen Bay Conservation Park'' under the ''

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''. Section 555 was added to the conservation park on 9 September 1976 followed by Sections 575 and 576 on 21 March 1991. As of 2018, it covered an area of . The following statements sourced respectively from the conservation park’s management plan and the now-discontinued

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summarises its conservation significance:

The Park contains some of the Guichen Bay beach ridge plain; a classic example of Holocene beach ridge development of worldwide interest which records the naturalhistory of the Bay over the last 7000 years.

Because of its inaccessibility this Park is rarely visited by people. The fairly dense coastal heath provides a home for the secretive ''Dasyornis broadbenti'' (rufous bristle bird), while along the seashore dotterels and
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are common.

The conservation park is classified as an

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Category III protected area. In 1980, it was listed on the now-defunct

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External links

Guichen Bay Conservation Park webpage on protected planetGuichen Bay Conservation Park webpage on the BirdsSA website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guichen Bay Conservation Park Conservation parks of South Australia Protected areas established in 1967 1967 establishments in Australia South Australian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate

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