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:

BETKA

Nominated by:

Not recorded

Location:

Not recorded

Size [1]

28000 ha (nominated)
15600 ha (identified)

TENURE

National Park[2] 8000 ha
Nature Reserve 0 ha
State Forest 20000 ha
Vacant Crown Land 0 ha
Leasehold Land 0 ha
Freehold Land 0 ha
Aboriginal Land 0 ha

Wilderness Declared

None

Wilderness Not Declared

28000 ha

DESCRIPTION

STATE FORESTS

ENDANGERED SPECIES

LAND USE HISTORY


Occupation of the block by Aborigines focused on the areas around inlets,
estuaries and wetlands. Archaeological surveys have identified a large number of
shell middens south of the Betka River. These consisted mainly of the remains of
rock platform shellfish. The appecar to represent transitory camps made by small
gropus moving along the coast from one inlet to another or making brief visits
to the coast from inland camps. [3]







CONSERVATION HISTORY

THREATS

CONTACTS

No contacts are recorded from that area.
ENDNOTES
1
This area is taken from The Wilderness Society, 1990,"Wilderness Special
Investigation Descriptive Report Submission to the Land Conservation Council by
the Wilderness Society"

2
Within Croajingalong National Park. (Approximate and taken from the map in LCC,
Descriptive Report, 1991.)

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