Mount Magnificent Conservation Park

Where is it?: Mount Magnificent Conservation Park is c. 8km NE of Mount Compass between Blackfellows Creek Road and Mount Magnificent Road.

Owner: Department for Environment and Water

Property summary: Total area 90 hectares. Hundred of Kondoparinga – Section 95, Hundred of Kuitpo – Sections 293 and 931, Hundred of Myponga – Section 765.

Landscape Region: Hills and Fleurieu

History: Section 293, Hundred of Kuitpo was proclaimed as Mount Magnificent National Park on 1967 on 10 August 1967¹. It was re-proclaimed on 27 April 1972 as Mount Magnificent Conservation Park². Sections 95, 765 and 931 were added on 19 July 2018³. Allotment 41 (Deposited Plan 114700) was removed on 19 July 2018⁴. Allotment 42 (Deposited Plan 114700) was added on 17 June 2021.

Habitat: The vegetation is Open Forest consisting of Messmate Stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua) +/- Brown Stringy bark (E. baxteri) +/- Pink Gum (E. fasciculosa) +/- Cup Gum (E. cosmophylla). Understorey plants include Yacca (Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. semiplana), Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha), Myrtle Wattle (A. myrtifolia), Desert Banskia (Banskia ornata) and Large-leaf Pea Bush (Pultenaea daphnoides).

Total Species Recorded to Date: 91 (non-passerines 41, passerines 50)

Common Species: White-throated Treecreeper, Superb Fairywren, New Holland Honeyeater, Striated Thornbill, Australian Magpie

Less Common Species: Elegant Parrot, White-faced Heron, Yellow-rumped Thornbill, Black-faced Cuckooshrike, Willie Wagtail, Rufous Whistler

References:

¹ Government of South Australia (1967). National Parks Act 1966: Hundred of Kuitpo—Mount Magnificent National Park. (10 August 1967)

 ²  National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 (SA). sch 4. p. 3. (19 March 2021)

³ Government of South Australia (2018). National Parks and Wildlife (Mount Magnificent Conservation Park) Proclamation 2018. (19 July 2018)

⁴ Government of South Australia (2018). National Parks and Wildlife (Mount Magnificent Conservation Park—Public Road) Proclamation 2018. (19 July 2018)

⁵ Government of South Australia (2021). National Parks and Wildlife (Mount Magnificent Conservation Park) Proclamation 2021. (17 June 2021)

Updated:13/03/2022