Lake Gilles Conservation Park

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Lake Gilles Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN category Ia (strict nature reserve)
File:01 Lake Gilles 03.JPG The southern shore of Lake Gilles looking northeast
Lake Gilles Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Kimba
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Established	30 September 1971 (1971-09-30)^[1]
Area	655.27 km² (253.0 sq mi)^[1]
Managing authorities	Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Website	Lake Gilles Conservation Park
Footnotes	Coordinates^[2]
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Lake Gilles Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the north of the Eyre Peninsula about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Kimba.^[3]^[1]

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.^[2] The conservation park is reported as containing:^[3]

an ephemeral lake system fringed by samphire communities. The park provides habitat for the Malleefowl, Slender-billed Thornbill, Thick-billed Grasswren and migratory waders. Extensive but patchy mallee communities on the eastern plains of the park include Western Myall and associated chenopod shrubland.

References

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National parks	Belair Canunda Coffin Bay Coorong Flinders Chase Flinders Ranges Gawler Ranges Great Australian Bight Marine Innes Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens Lincoln Malkumba-Coongie Mount Remarkable Murray River Naracoorte Caves Nullarbor Onkaparinga River Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges Witjira
Conservation parks	Acraman Creek Aldinga Scrub Althorpe Islands Angove Avoid Bay Islands Baird Bay Islands Bakara Baudin Baudin Rocks Beachport Beatrice Islet Beyeria Busby Islet Billiatt Bird Islands Black Hill Breakaways Butchers Gap Cap Island Cape Blanche Cape Gantheaume Cape Willoughby Carpenter Rocks Carribie Chadinga Cleland Clinton Cooltong Cox Scrub Cygnet Estuary Danggali Deep Creek Douglas Point Dudley Eba Island Ediacara Elliot Price Eric Bonython Ewens Ponds Fairview Ferguson Finniss Fort Glanville Fowlers Bay Franklin Harbor Gambier Islands Giles Goose Island Greenly Island Guichen Bay Gum Laqoon Kelly Hill Hacks Lagoon Hale Hallett Cove Hincks Horsnell Gully Ironstone Hill Kaiserstuhl Kellidie Bay Lake Gilles Lake Newland Lashmar Lathami Laura Bay Lesueur Leven Beach Lincoln Lipson Island Little Dip Mamungari Mantung Marino Martindale Hall Minlacowie Moana Sands Montacute Morialta Mount Brown Mount Dutton Bay Mount Magnificent Mount Taylor Munyaroo Nene Valley Nepean Bay Neptune Islands Newland Head Nicolas Baudin Island Ngarkat Nuyts Archipelago Nuyts Reef Olive Island Para Wirra Parndana Peebinga Penguin Island Pelican Lagoon Pigface Island Point Bell Point Davenport Point Labatt Piccaninnie Ponds Pinkawillinie Port Gawler Pualco Range Pullen Island Rocky Island (North) Ramsay Rocky Island (South) Salt Lagoon Islands Sceale Bay Scott Creek Seal Bay Searcy Bay Seddon Simpson Simpson Desert Sinclair Island Sir Joseph Banks Group Sleaford Mere Spring Gully Talisker Telowie Gorge The Dutchmans Stern The Pages Torrens Island Troubridge Island Tumby Island Venus Bay Vivonne Bay Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Wahgunyah Waitpinga Waldegrave Islands Warrenben West Island Whidbey Isles Whyalla Wills Creek Winninowie Wittelbee
Game reserves	Bool Lagoon Bucks Lake Chowilla Currency Creek Lake Robe Loch Luna Moorook Mud Islands Poocher Swamp Tolderol
Recreation parks	Anstey Hill Blackwood Forest Brownhill Creek Caratoola Cobbler Creek Granite Island Greenhill Long Island O'Halloran Hill Onkaparinga River Shepherds Hill Sturt Gorge Totness
Regional Reserves	Chowilla Innamincka Lake Frome Nullarbor Simpson Desert Strzelecki Yellabinna
Conservation reserves	Bernouilli
Wilderness Protection Areas	Billiatt Cape Bouguer Cape Gantheaume Cape Torrens Danggali Hambridge Hincks Investigator Group Memory Cove Nullarbor Nuyts Archipelago Ravine des Casoars Western River Yellabinna
Aquatic reserves	American River Aldinga Reef Bales Beach Barker Inlet Blanche Harbour Coobowie Cowleds Landing Goose Island Great Australian Bight Marine Park Whale Sanctuary Point Labatt Port Noarlunga Reef Seal Bay St Kilda – Chapman Creek Troubridge Hill West Island Yatala Harbour
Other protected areas	Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary Arkaroola Protection Area

Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Cities

Townships

Governance

Federal division	Grey
State electoral districts	Flinders Giles Stuart
Local Government	Ceduna DC Cleve DC Elliston DC Franklin Harbour DC Kimba DC Lower Eyre Peninsula DC City of Port Augusta City of Port Lincoln Streaky Bay DC Tumby Bay DC City of Whyalla Wudinna DC

Protected areas

Coastal features

West coast	Anxious Bay Calca Peninsula Cape Blanche Cape Carnot Cape Catastrophe Cape Finniss Cape Radstock Cape Wiles Coffin Bay Peninsula Jussieu Peninsula Point Avoid Point Labatt Point Weyland Point Whidbey Slade Point
East coast	Cape Burr Cape Donington Cape Hardy Lipson Cove Memory Cove Point Lowly Yorkey Crossing

Islands adjoining Eyre Peninsula coast

West coast	Avoid Bay Islands Baird Bay Jones Island Unnamed island, Baird Bay Cap Island Eba Island Germein Island Grantham Island Greenly Island Investigator Group Flinders Island Waldegrave Islands Ward Islands Liguanea Island Neptune Islands Nicolas Baudin Island Nuyts Archipelago Smooth Island Olive Island Pigface Island Whidbey Isles Williams Island
East coast	Bicker Isles Boston Island Curlew Island Entrance Island Hopkins Island Lewis Island Lipson Island Little Island Louth Island Owen Island Sir Joseph Banks Group Sleaford Islands Smith Island Taylor Island Thistle Island Tumby Island