Wallaga Lake National Park is a former

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, south-west of

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and north of Bermagui. It now forms part of a greater

Gulaga National Park Gulaga National Park is a national park on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, about north of Bermagui. The park is dominated by Gulaga, also known as Mount Gulaga (formerly Mount Dromedary). The former Wallaga Lake National Park, ...

. In 2001, as part of the Southern Comprehensive Regional Forest Agreement and at the request of

Yuin people The Yuin nation, also spelt Djuwin, is a group of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast of New South Wales. All Yuin people share ancestors who spoke, as their first language, one or more of the Yuin language dialects. Sub-group ...

, Gulaga National Park was created out of the existing Wallaga Lake National Park, Goura Nature Reserve, and Mt Dromedary Flora Reserve.PDF
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) In May 2006, ownership to this former National Park, plus the rest of the Gulaga National Park, was restored to the area's

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, in whom legal tenure was vested (in trust) as part of an agreement signed by then New South Wales Environment Minister

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and representatives for the Yuin people. The name of the park derived from

Wallaga Lake Wallaga Lake is an estuarine lake in Bega Valley Shire in New South Wales, Australia, the largest lake in southern NSW. It is located between Bermagui to the south and between Tilba Tilba to the north, situated beneath Mount Gulaga, in the tra ...

, which is of cultural significance as well as being a source of food for the Yuin people. The black duck, Umbarra, who lives here, is the totem of the Yuin-Monaro people.

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Webpage describing the special significance of Wallaga Lake to Yuin peoples

NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change webpage Gulaga National Park

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