Innes-Nationalpark

The Innes National Park (English Innes National Park ) is located in South Australia of Australia, about 285 km from Adelaide. It has an area of 9,232 ha and was made in January 1970 under protection.

General

The Innes National Park lies at the tip of the Yorke Peninsula. Here you will find before a spectacular coastal scenery, which has many natural habitats, while providing a whole range of possibilities for recreational activities. Was originally recorded under protection in order to obtain the rare and endangered Singvogelart Psophodes nigrogularis the habitat.

In the park you meet on the landscape types coastal heath, mallee, open grasslands, beaches, sandbars, and rocky cliffs Kasuarinenwälder.

History

Originally, this area was inhabited by the Aboriginal tribe of Narrunga. The first European settlers took in 1847 of land in the vicinity of Cape Spencer for grazing by sheep in possession. The national park is named after William Robert Innes, of commercially exploitable deposits of gypsum vorfand in the area at the beginning of the 20th century, which were then also exploited to around 1930.

Plant and animal world

In the National Park about 140 species of birds have been recorded, including Emu, osprey, peregrine falcon, little penguin and wedge-tailed eagle. Noteworthy are also the occurrence of the thermometer chicken and occurring only in Australia vulnerable cap plover The once widespread Derbywallaby had suffered a strong stock slump in the first half of the last century, but is represented in the Innes National Park, with a stable population. Reptiles are represented, among others the species Brown snake, pine cones and Eastern bearded dragon lizard.

• Bird species in the Bago Bluff National Park

Little Penguin

Keilschwanzadler

Thermometer chicken

So far, also the occurrence was documented by more than 330 naturally occurring plant species in the National Park, of which 115 are particularly vulnerable.

Tourism

The park visitor center is available, toilets and picnic areas are also available. Different paths lead visitors to the different landforms and lead to interesting viewpoints .. From Stenhouse Bay and Cape Spencer you can watch Southern Right whales in the winter months.