Scorpion Springs Conservation Park

Scorpion Springs Conservation Park (formerly Scorpion Well National Park) was a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s south-east in the locality of Pinnaroo at the border with the state of Victoria about 215 kilometres (134 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) south of the town of Pinnaroo. The conservation park consisted of land in the following cadastral units located at the southern end of the locality of Pinnaroo - section 16 in the Hundred of Fisk, sections 9 and 10 in the Hundred of Quirke and section 65 in “South Out of Hundreds”. The land first received protected area status as the Scorpion Well National Park proclaimed on 9 July 1970 under the National Parks Act 1966. On 27 April 1972, the national park was reconstituted as the Scorpion Springs Conservation Park under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. The establishment of both it and the Mount Shaugh Conservation Park were planned “concurrently with the development of adjacent areas for farming in the late 1960s” in order “to conserve the mallee heath habitat of the 90 Mile Desert”. Its name was derived from “Scorpion Soakage” (also known as “Scorpion Spring”), which is a water source used by the Ngarkat Aboriginal people and which was located within the conservation park’s boundaries. On 27 May 2004, the conservation pa

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