NATIONAL WILDERNESS RED INDEX

Published by the Colong Foundation for Wilderness Ltd. 30/09/94
Level 2, 332 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000.
Ph (02) 9261 2400; Fax (02) 9261 2144.

Name:

CORROBINNIE

Nominated by:

Not recorded

Location:

The Corrobinnie area is located in the northern part of the Central Eyre Peninsula.

Size
For size and tenure information contact the Colong Foundation.

DESCRIPTION

The Corrobinnie area is located in the northern part of the Central Eyre
Peninsula. It is an elongated depression, thickly mantled with sand, forming
numerous parabolic dunes, with isolated hills of volcanic or metamorphic rocks. [1]

The dunes of the area are covered with a mallee open scrub of Eucalyptus
flockoniae and Eucalyptus dumosa pileata. The vegetation of th einterdunes
consists of an open scrub of Eucalyptus incrassata and E. foecunda and some low
woodland of Acacia papyrocarpa and Casuarina cristata. The occasional hills of
volcanics and metasediments are also a mix of low woodland and open scrub. [2]

STATE FORESTS

ENDANGERED SPECIES

LAND USE HISTORY


The area is lightly grazed and as a result is probably less natural in condition
than Hambidge and Hincks Conservation Parks to the south, but it has sustained
lettle aesthetic disturbance and is more remote from access and settlement than
these other areas. [3]

CONSERVATION HISTORY

THREATS

CONTACTS

No contacts are recorded from that area.
ENDNOTES
1
Prineas, P., Lembit, R., Fisher, N., 1986, "Australia's Wilderness An
Inventory".

2
Prineas, 1986.

3
Prineas, 1986.

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