Witjira National Park on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Witjira National Park is a 
Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under
Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)
licence.
Witjira National Park official webpageWitjira National Park webpage on protected planet
{{authority control National parks of South Australia Protected areas established in 1985 1985 establishments in Australia Co-managed protected areas in South Australia Far North (South Australia) South Australian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
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 about north of the state capital of Adelaide.
History
Thenational park
A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...
was proclaimed on 21 November 1985 to "protect Australia’s largest array of artesian springs
An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure. An artesian aquifer has trapped water, surrounded by layers of impermeable rock or clay, which apply positive pressure to the water contained within th ...
: the nationally significant Dalhousie Mound Springs complex". In 2007, it became the first protected area in South Australia to have formal joint management arrangements between its traditional owners and the Government of South Australia
The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government, SA Government or more formally, His Majesty’s Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of South Australia. It is modelled o ...
.
The extent of land occupied by the national park was gazetted as a locality in April 2013 under the name "Witjira".
On 26 November 2021, the government changed the conditions of the park, to forever exclude mining in the Dalhousie Springs National Heritage Area. Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)
licence.
Description
As of 2018, it covered an area of . The national park is classified as anIUCN
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 VI protected area. It was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate
The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007. Phasing out began in 2003, when the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heritag ...
during or after 1998.
The historic Dalhousie Homestead Ruins, from the former Dalhousie Station, lie within the national park and are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.
See also
* Protected areas of South AustraliaReferences
External links
Witjira National Park official webpage
{{authority control National parks of South Australia Protected areas established in 1985 1985 establishments in Australia Co-managed protected areas in South Australia Far North (South Australia) South Australian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate