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Mary Seymour Conservation Park

Australia

Mary Seymour Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the south-east of the state in the gazetted locality of Bool Lagoon about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south-west of the town centre of Naracoorte. The conservation park occupies land in sections 199, 2

00 and 365 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Robertson. It is bounded by the Coles-Killanoola Road to the west and by the Bool Lagoon West Road to the north while the land reserved for roads on its east and south boundaries have not been developed as of 1992. A drain known as "Killanoola Drain", which is part of the drainage infrastructure built in the south east of the state since European settlement, passes through the eastern quarter of the conservation park, carrying water to a drain known as "Drain M" located to the north and which terminates in the sea at Beachport in the south. The presence of the drain is reported as having “modified the natural water regime of the wetland system” within the conservation park. As of 1992, it included a “former sand quarry and two stone quarries” in its south west corner, a system of yards “which are historically significant remnants of past...

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