Witjira National Park
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox Australian place Witjira National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia about Template:Convert north of the state capital of Adelaide.<ref name=MP/>
HistoryEdit
The national park was proclaimed on 21 November 1985 to "protect Australia’s largest array of artesian springs: the nationally significant Dalhousie Mound Springs complex".<ref name="SAGG-1985"/><ref name=MP/> 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.<ref name=MP/>
The extent of land occupied by the national park was gazetted as a locality in April 2013 under the name "Witjira".<ref name=PLB>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On 26 November 2021, the government changed the conditions of the park, to forever exclude mining in the Dalhousie Springs National Heritage Area.<ref name=cpc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} File:CC-BY icon.svg Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under a Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU) licence.</ref>
DescriptionEdit
As of 2018, it covered an area of Template:Convert.<ref name="ReserveList"/>
The national park is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area.<ref name=CAPAD2016SASum/> It was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate during or after 1998.<ref name="NRE">Template:Cite AHD</ref>
The historic Dalhousie Homestead Ruins, from the former Dalhousie Station, lie within the national park and are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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