Mount Remarkable National Park

This article is about the protected area. For the mountain in South Australia, see Mount Remarkable.

Mount Remarkable National Park South Australia
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
Mount Remarkable National Park
Nearest town or city	Melrose
Coordinates
Established	1 January 1952 (1952-01-01)
Area	182.71 km2 (70.5 sq mi)
Visitation	50,000 (in 2006)
Managing authorities	Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Website	Mount Remarkable National Park
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Mount Remarkable National Park is a protected area in South Australia located about north of Adelaide and east of Port Augusta. It is also the name of the highest peak in the park, with a height of .

Description

The national park consists of three separate areas. The first is the parcel of land (also known as a block in some sources) located immediately west of the town of Melrose and consists of the following three areas - the Warren Bonython Link, Mambray Creek and Mount Remarkable. As of 2006, this parcel of land occupied an area of . The second is a parcel of land known as the Telowie block which has an area of as of 2006, and is located on the west side of the Telowie Gorge Conservation Park about east of the town of Port Germein and about south of the block located at Melrose. The third is a parcel of land known as the Napperby Block with an area of as of 2006 and which is located immediately east of the town of Napperby, about south of the Telowie Gorge Conservation Park and about north-east of the city of Port Pirie.

The national park is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area.

History

Land associated with the national park at Mambray Creek and Alligator Gorge first obtained protected area status in 1952 as national pleasure resorts declared under the National Pleasure Resorts Act 1914 which were managed by the South Australian Government Tourist Bureau for the period from 1952 to 1967.

In 1964, the National Parks Commission submitted a proposal to the Government of South Australia for “comprehensive national parks “covering an area larger than that of the existing national pleasure resorts. This resulted in the creation of three separate reserves - the Alligator Gorge Wildlife Reserve, the Mambray Creek Wildlife Reserve and the Mount Remarkable Wildlife Reserve that were respectively constituted in July 1965, September 1967 and March 1966.

In 1972, the three wildlife reserves were re-proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 as the Mount Remarkable National Park. Since 1972, the national park is reported as doubling in size from an area of by the addition of land including the Black Range Lookout and the Bluff in 1976 and by the addition of an “area west of Alligator Gorge containing The Battery”, two parts of the Willowie Forest Reserve and the Napperby Block in 1993.

In 2000, land which was subsequently renamed as “The Warren Bonython Link” in honour of Warren Bonython’s “long personal interest in the area” and “his association with the National Parks Foundation” was added to the national park. As of 2014, the national park had an area of .

See also

• Protected areas of South Australia
• Alligator Gorge

External links

• Mount Remarkable National Park official webpage
• Friends of Mount Remarkable National Park official website
• Mount Remarkable National Park webpage on protected planet

View (looking north) along the Daveys Gully walking trail.

View (looking west) along the Daveys Gully walking trail.