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LOCATION
Map Show Map
Address MOUNT GAMBIER
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Mount Gambier Council
Polygon Type D - item has been digitised (generally because it doesn't exist in a DCDB parcel, eg. bridge
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Mount Gambier Volcanic Complex State Heritage Area (including the Blue Lake, Leg of Mutton Lake, Valley Lake, Browne Lake and the Devil's Punchbowl)
Registered Name
Significance The Mount Gambier Volcanic Complex State Heritage Area is significant as an example of recent geological activity in South Australia. With the nearby Mount Schank, it is one of the two youngest volcanic eruption centres in Australia, resulting in the formation of the four crater lakes: Warwar/the Blue Lake, Yatton Loo/Leg of Mutton Lake, Ketla Malpi/Valley Lake and Kroweratwari/Brownes Lake, the latter two lakes holding permanent water. The area demonstrates some of the earliest evidence of pastoral and agricultural development in the south east with the first European settlement in the district, `Henty's Hut', established in 1841. It is also the site of one of the first forest reserves recognised under the Forest Board Act 1875. Warwar/the Blue Lake has supplied Mount Gambier with water since 1883 and has been a popular tourist destination for South Australians and Victorians since the 1880s. The area is also a public space of value to the local community, featuring recreation parks, lookouts and commemorative memorials.
Subject Index Landscape area - State Heritage Area [Landscape]; Landscape area - Geological Site; Landscape area - Natural Landscape
Class State Her Area
STATUS
Status Code SHA - State Heritage Area (SA Heritage Act 1978)
Status Date 11-JUN-1992
REFERENCE
LGA
State Heritage ID 14113
Heritage Number 27562
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information

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