Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park, formerly the Kelvin Powrie National Parks Reserve, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east in the gazetted localities of Coombe and Keith about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north-west of the town centre in Keith.[5][2]
The conservation park consists of land located between the Dukes Highway on its south-west side and the Melbourne–Adelaide railway on its north-eastern side on the boundary between the localities of Coombe and Keith.[5] The conservation park occupies land in the cadastral units of the hundreds of Archibald and Stirling.[5] It was originally proclaimed as the Kelvin Powrie National Parks Reserve under the National Parks Act 1966 on 4 March 1971.[3] It was renamed as the Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 27 April 1972.[6] Its name commemorates James Kelvin Powrie, a "research scientist who discovered the trace element deficiency of the soil in this area, (formerly the Ninety Mile Desert)."[7] As of July 2016, the conservation park covered an area of 17 hectares (42 acres).[4]
In 1992, the conservation park was described as follows:[5]
Its landscape consisted of “a uniform limestone plain with isolated gently rising sand dunes” which passes through the conservation park in “a generally east-west direction” and which has soils described as being “generally deep acid bleached sands with a yellow-grey B horizon.”
Remnant native vegetation within its boundaries consist of a “pink gum low open woodland with a heath understorey” in its south, a”substantially treeless heath associated with low sandy rises” in its north and with “a band of coastal white mallee … woodland” passing through its centre from the north-west to the south-east along “the crest of the dune system.”
As of 1992, visitor facilities consisted of a “parking area and picnic site” catering “mainly for short stops by people travelling along the Dukes Highway” and a walking track that “leads from the parking area In a north west direction to the crest of a dune which affords a view of the heath association In the north” of the conservation park.[5]
The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.[1] In 1980, it was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.[7]
^ abc"Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ ab"Search result(s) for Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park (Record No. SA0033730) with the following layers being selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^ ab"NATIONAL PARKS ACT, 1966: HUNDREDS OF ARCHIBALD AND STIRLING—KELVIN POWRIE NATIONAL PARKS RESERVE DECLARED" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 959. 4 March 1971. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^ ab"Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 11 July 2016)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
^ abcdefSouth Australia, National Parks and Wildlife Service, South East District; Sutherland, Andrea; South Australia. National Parks and Wildlife Service (1992), Small parks of the upper South East management plans, South East, South Australia(PDF), Dept. of Environment and Planning, pp. 21–23, ISBN 978-0-7308-2665-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"No. 56 of 1972 (National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1972)". The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 701. 27 April 1972. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
^ ab"Kelvin Powrie Conservation Park, Dukes Hwy, Keith, SA, Australia - listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate (Place ID 7963)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. 21 October 1980. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
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