Point Bell Conservation Park Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Point Bell Conservation Park Penong, South Australia
IUCN Category III (Natural Monument)
Nearest town or city	Ceduna
Established	11 November 1993
Area	5.46 km² (2.1 sq mi)
Managing authorities	Department for Environment and Water
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Point Bell Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Penong in the west of the state on the coastline of the Great Australian Bight on land including and adjoining the headland of Point Bell about 52 kilometres (32 miles) west of the town of Ceduna.

The land first acquired protected area status on 11 November 1993 as a conservation reserve dedicated under the Crown Lands Act 1929 and known as the Point Bell Conservation Reserve. In 2005, the conservation reserve was resumed and in 2006, the land was constituted as the Point Bell Conservation Park.

In 2007, the conservation park was described by its managing authority as follows:

This small rocky point with granite boulders contains long, sandy beaches and sand dunes. It provides excellent fishing, camping and swimming opportunities.

A co-management agreement signed by the Far West Coast Aboriginal Corporation and the Government of South Australia in 2013 in respect to the Yumbarra Conservation Park also provides for the corporation to give advice on the management of the conservation park and other reserves in the west of the state. The conservation park is one of those in the west of the state where Aboriginal people are permitted to hunt for and gather food.

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III 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

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