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Greenly Island Conservation Park

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Nearest town or city
  
Coffin Bay.

Area
  
168 ha

Established
  
16 March 1967

Greenly Island Conservation Park

Managing authorities
  
Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

See also
  
Protected areas of South Australia

Greenly Island Conservation Park is a protected area associated with Greenly Island located off the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Coffin Bay. It was declared in 1972 under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 ‘to protect the island’s delicate ecology and Australian Sea-lion and New Zealand Fur-seal haul-out areas’ and continuing protected area status for the island which was first declared in 1919. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.

References

Greenly Island Conservation Park Wikipedia