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Pine Hill Soak Conservation Park is a
protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
in the Australian state of
South Australia located in the state's
Limestone Coast in the gazetted locality of
Bangham about south of the town centre in
Bordertown.
The conservation park occupies land in section 67 of
the cadastral unit of the
Hundred of Geegeela on the eastern side of Frances Road. It is bounded by McCarthy Road to the north and by a vehicle track to its east and south boundaries. Land adjoining its south-west boundary is gazetted as a recreation reserve and contains a
hall
In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the Middle Ages, the gr ...
called the Bangham Hall and some tennis courts. Its name is derived from a
soak known as Pine Hill Soak which is located near the conservation park's southern boundary.
The conservation park was proclaimed on 17 September 1987.
[ As of 2012, access to the conservation park for the purpose of petroleum exploration under the ''Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Act 2000'' was not permitted.]desert banksia
''Banksia ornata'', commonly known as desert banksia, is a species of shrub that is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. The Ngarrindjeri people of the Lower Murray region in South Australia know it as yelakut. It has thin bark, se ...
being the "dominant shrub species" while the latter landform supported a "woodland of river red gum … and South Australian blue gum … with an open understorey of grasses, sedges and herbs". The conservation park contains native pine which is "an occurrence close to the southern limit of this species' distribution" and which was considered as "suitable habitat" for the red-tailed black cockatoo - a species considered to be "threatened" at the time and which is "dependent on brown stringybark for food and nesting resources". Further, visitation to the conservation park was described as "low".IUCN
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...
Category III protected area.[
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See also
* Protected areas of South Australia
References
External links
Webpage for the Pine Hill Soak Conservation Park on the Protected Planet website
{{Protected areas of South Australia, state=collapsed
Conservation parks of South Australia
Protected areas established in 1987
1987 establishments in Australia
Limestone Coast