Nicolas Baudin Island Conservation Park Facts for Kids

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Quick facts for kids Nicolas Baudin Island Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN Category Ia (Strict Nature Reserve)
Nearest town or city	Streaky Bay.
Established	16 January 2003
Area	94 ha (230 acres)
Managing authorities	Department for Environment and Water
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Nicolas Baudin Island Conservation Park is a protected area associated with Nicolas Baudin Island which is located off Cape Blanche on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Streaky Bay. The conservation park was proclaimed in 2003 under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 to ‘protect a significant breeding location for the Australian sea lion.’

Nicolas Baudin Island's significance is argued as follows:

Recent research has confirmed that the park is of great importance as a breeding colony for a large population of Australian sea lions and is considered important in the association of sea-lions and New Zealand fur seals living side by side. South of the park, Point Labatt is the site of the largest mainland breeding colony of Australian sea lions, thought to interact heavily with the Nicolas Baudin Island colony.

Its extent includes the island with an area of about 10 hectares (25 acres) and adjoining seabed with a total area of 94 hectares (230 acres). Part of the conservation park were declared as a prohibited area at the day of establishment to prevent any disturbance of the breeding cycle of the Australian sea lion and New Zealand fur seal population.

The conservation park including its marine zone is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.

Protected areas of South Australia

National parks	Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary Belair Canunda Coffin Bay Coorong Flinders Chase Ikara-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 Bangham Barwell Bascombe Well Baudin Baudin Rocks Beachport Beatrice Islet Beyeria Big Heath Billiatt Bird Islands Black Hill Boondina Breakaways Busby Islet Butchers Gap Calpatanna Waterhole Cap Island Cape Blanche Cape Gantheaume Cape Willoughby Caralue Bluff Carappee Hill Carpenter Rocks Carribie Chadinga Cleland Clinton Cocata Cooltong Corrobinnie Hill Cox Scrub Custon Cygnet Estuary Danggali Darke Range Deep Creek Desert Camp Douglas Point Dudley Eba Island Ediacara Elliot Price Eric Bonython Ewens Ponds Fairview Ferguson Finniss Fort Glanville Fowlers Bay Franklin Harbor Gambier Islands Gawler Ranges Giles Goose Island Grass Tree Greenly Island Guichen Bay Gum Laqoon Hacks Lagoon Hale Hallett Cove Heggaton Hincks Horsnell Gully Ironstone Hill Kaiserstuhl Kapunda Island Kathai Kellidie Bay Kelly Hill Kelvin Powrie Kenneth Stirling Kulliparu Lake Gilles Lake Newland Lashmar Lathami Laura Bay Lesueur Leven Beach Lincoln Lipson Island Little Dip Malgra Mamungari Mantung Marino Martindale Hall Media Island Middlecamp Hills Minlacowie Moana Sands Montacute Moody Tank Morialta Mount Brown Mount Dutton Bay Mount Magnificent Mount Scott Mount Taylor Mullinger Swamp Munyaroo Murrunatta Nene Valley Nepean Bay Neptune Islands Newland Head Nicolas Baudin Island Ngarkat Nuyts Archipelago Nuyts Reef Olive Island Para Wirra Paranki Lagoon Parndana Peachna Peebinga Penguin Island Pelican Lagoon Pigface Island Pine Hill Soak Point Bell Point Davenport Point Labatt Piccaninnie Ponds Pinkawillinie Port Gawler Pualco Range Pullen Island Pureba Ramsay Rilli Island Rocky Island (North) Rocky Island (South) Roonka Rudall Salt Lagoon Islands Sceale Bay Scott Creek Seal Bay Searcy Bay Seddon Shannon Sheoak Hill Simpson Simpson Desert Sinclair Island Sir Joseph Banks Group Sleaford Mere Spring Gully Talapar Talisker Tallaringa Telford Scrub Telowie Gorge The Dutchmans Stern The Pages The Plug Range Torrens Island Troubridge Island Tucknott Scrub Tumby Island Venus Bay Verran Tanks Vivonne Bay Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Wahgunyah Waitpinga Waldegrave Islands Wanilla Wanilla Land Settlement Warrenben West Island Wharminda Whidbey Isles Whyalla Wills Creek Winninowie Wittelbee Yeldulknie Yumbarra

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 Buckleboo Bunbury Bunkers Cortlinye Cox Scrub Cunyarie Desert Camp Hardings Springs Lacroma Moongi Mootra Pinkawillinie Reservoir Poolgarra Tola Former conservation reserves

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-St Kilda Blanche Harbour-Douglas Bank Coobowie Goose Island Great Australian Bight Marine Park Whale Sanctuary Point Labatt Port Noarlunga Reef Seal Bay St Kilda – Chapman Creek Troubridge Hill West Island Encounter Bay Whyalla - Cowleds Landing Yatala Harbour

Other protected areas	Arkaroola Protection Area

Marine protected areas of South Australia

Aquatic reserves	American River Aldinga Reef Bales Beach Barker Inlet-St Kilda Blanche Harbour-Douglas Bank Coobowie Whyalla - 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 Encounter Bay Yatala Harbour Upper Spencer Gulf

Historic shipwrecks with protected zones	HMAS Hobart Shipwreck Reserve Zanoni Shipwreck Reserve

Marine parks	Eastern Spencer Gulf Encounter Far West Coast Franklin Harbor Gambier Islands Group Investigator Lower South East Lower Yorke Peninsula Neptune Islands Group Nuyts Archipelago Sir Joseph Banks Group Southern Kangaroo Island Southern Spencer Gulf Thorny Passage Upper Gulf St Vincent Upper South East Upper Spencer Gulf West Coast Bays Western Kangaroo Island

Terrestrial reserves with marine extensions	Beatrice Islet Bird Islands Lipson Island Neptune Islands Nicolas Baudin Island Nuyts Reef Rocky Island (North) Rocky Island (South) Sinclair Island Sir Joseph Banks Group The Pages Troubridge Island

Other	Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary Great Australian Bight Marine National Park

Related topics	Australian marine parks Protected areas of South Australia List of protected areas in Adelaide

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