Sunday, Jan 07, 2007 at 19:48
Yeah, pity about no dogs.
I looked up Mark Shephard's excellent book from 1995 called "Great Victoria Desert" which is unfortunately out of print, and came up with the following:
The concept of a nature
park in far western SA was first raised in 1967. The SA Pastoral Board looked at the potential for this area for pastoral development, but recommended that the area between 28deg30'S and 28deg07'S should be designated a Flora and Fauna reserve to protect an area of Marble Gum,
Kurrajong and Spinifex association. The area was subsequently declared a National
Park in 1970 and borders were drawn to include the Marble Gums, the
Serpentine Lakes palaeochannel, and myall and mulga on the northern edge of the Nullabor Plain. The
park was not given a name. Two years later, the
park was reconstituted as "The Unnamed Conservation Park". Its Unnamed tag stuck despite several possible names being suggested. The aboriginal people have numerous names for sites, but no single name is representative of the area as a whole. The Aboriginal word "Mamungarintja" refers to the
Serpentine Lakes area and has been suggested, but the Traditional owners have agreed that the
park's official title should remain "UnNamed".
The announcement by the Minister was made about 2 weeks ago.
Ministers announcement Link
There is good information out there about the GVD, but it can be hard to find. An excellent small book was also printed last year by the Friends Group:
Shrubs and Trees of the
Great Victoria Desert
Cheers
Phil
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