Roonka Conservation Park

Roonka Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)[1]
Roonka Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Blanchetown[2]
Coordinates	34°18′05″S 139°38′10″E / 34.3014°S 139.6361°E / -34.3014; 139.6361s[1]
Established	27 July 1978 (1978-07-27)[3]
Area	1.02 km2 (0.4 sq mi)[4]
Managing authorities	Department for Environment and Water
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Roonka Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Blanchetown about 5.8 kilometres (3.6 mi) north of the Blanchetown town centre.^[2]

The conservation park is located on land in sections 4 and 5 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Hay on the western side of the Murray River.^[2][3] It was constituted under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 27 July 1978.^[3] As of July 2016, the conservation park covered an area of 1.02 square kilometres (0.39 sq mi).^[4][2]

In 1980, it was described as follows:^[5]

Roonka Conservation Park contains a most important archaeological site, spanning about 18,000 years. It has yielded evidence of an extremely wide variety of mortuary practices, a large range of archaeological phenomena and a long cultural sequence. The site has been excavated over more than a decade by the South Australian Museum.

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.^[1] In 1980, it was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.^[5]

• Protected areas of South Australia

•  This article incorporates text by Commonwealth of Australia available under the CC BY 3.0 AU licence.

• Webpage for Roonka Conservation Park on the Protected Planet website
• Webpage for Roonka Conservation Park on the BirdsSA website