Billiatt Conservation Park

Billiatt Conservation Park

Infobox_protected_area_of_Australia | name = Billiatt Conservation Park
iucn_category = Ia



caption =
locator_x = 185
locator_y = 180
nearest_town_or_city = Alawoona
coordinates = (coord|34|59|20|S|140|28|52|E|region:AU-SA)
area = 592.56 km²
established = 1940
visitation_num =
visitation_year =
managing_authorities = Department for Environment and Heritage
official_site = [http://www.parks.sa.gov.au/parks/parks/murraylands/mallee_parks/index.htm#billiatt Billiatt Conservation Park]

Billiatt Conservation Park (coord|34|55|S|140|34|E|region:AU-SA) is situated in Australia midway between Alawoona and Lameroo, approximately 200 km east of Adelaide.

The country is characterised by sand dunes with a mosaic of open mallee scrub. Ridge-fruited and red-tipped slender leaf mallees add colour to the dunes with broombrush growing in the mottled shade. Pygmy possums and many birds including the rare western whipbird and red-lored whistler inhabit the area as does the malleefowl. There are also eighteen species of reptile.


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