Английская Википедия:Cap Island Conservation Park
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Cap Island Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about Шаблон:Convert offshore, west of Mount Misery, Eyre Peninsula. The park covers Cap Island's 8ha surface. The island consists of a granite base and a calcarenite mantle; its margins steeply over-hanging and eroded. Typical vegetation is a low Nitre Bush (Nitraria billardierei) shrubland. Cap Island Conservation Park was constituted by statute in 1972 to conserve a sea bird breeding area and Australian Sea-lion (Neophoca cinerea) and New Zealand Fur-seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) haul-out areas.[1]
Cap Island also bears the alternative name of Gap Island and historically was also known as Rocky Island.[2]
History
Matthew Flinders named the island on 16 February 1802, alluding to the island's topography, geology and cap-like profile. The island was proclaimed a Fauna Conservation Reserve in 1967.[3] and gazetted as the Cap Island Conservation Park in 1972. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.[4]
Fauna
In addition to marine mammals, at least nine species of birds have been recorded on Cap Island.[5] These include:
- Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae: Silver Gull
- Haematopus fuliginosus fuliginosus: Sooty Oystercatcher
- Hirundo (Hirundo) neoxena neoxena: Welcome Swallow
- Neophema (Neonanodes) petrophila: Rock Parrot
- Pelagodroma marina: White-faced Storm-petrel
- Sterna (Sterna) striata: White-fronted Tern
- Sternula nereis nereis: Fairy Tern
- Sturnus (Sturnus) vulgaris vulgaris: Common Starling
- Thalasseus bergii: Crested Tern
Flora
At least eight species of plants have been recorded on Cap Island.[5] They include:
- Apium prostratum var. prostratum: Sea Celery
- Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum: Rounded Noon-flower
- Frankenia pauciflora var. fruticulosa
- Frankenia pauciflora: Australian Sea-heath
- Lawrencia squamata: Thorny Lawrencia
- Mesembryanthemum crystallinum: Common Ice plant
- Nitraria billardierei: Dillon Bush
- Zygophyllum apiculatum: Callweed
References
External links
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- Conservation parks of South Australia
- Protected areas established in 1967
- 1967 establishments in Australia
- Great Australian Bight
- Islands of South Australia
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