Lake Newland Conservation Park

Lake Newland Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula about north of the town of Elliston. It was proclaimed in 1991 in order to protect Lake Newland, a hypersaline lake, and an associated wetland complex.DescriptionThe conservation park is located within the gazetted localities of Elliston, Colton and Talia (from south to north).It was proclaimed in 1991 with some additional land being added in 1996.Land within the conservation park has a relatively recent geological history, with Holocene sand-dunes creating a barrier between the Southern Ocean and a depression in the Bridgewater Formation of Pleistocene limestone that is common throughout the western Eyre Peninsula. The dunes continue to encroach on the lake, lagoons and other wetlands in the park which are also fed by freshwater springs in the limestone. Average annual rainfall (recorded at Elliston) is.The conservation park is named after the lake which itself was named by Edward John Eyre for his friend and travelling companion Richard Francis Newland.