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Kalamurina Sanctuary


Coordinates: 27°55′00″S 137°59′00″E / 27.9167°S 137.9833°E / -27.9167; 137.9833

Kalamurina Sanctuary is a nature reserve in arid north-eastern South Australia.

The 6,700 square kilometres (2,587 sq mi) pastoral lease operated as a cattle station for many decades in the 20th century. It was acquired in December 2007 by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy to become a nature reserve for biodiversity conservation and wildlife management. A high priority management need is a feral animal control program.

Although bordered by Cowarie Station to the east, the reserve is also between the Simpson Desert Regional Reserve to the north, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park to the south, the establishment of Kalamurina as a nature reserve creates a continuous protected area in central Australia larger than the State of Tasmania.

Kalamurina borders on the north coast of Lake Eyre North and contains a large proportion of the Lake Eyre catchment. Its habitats include dunefields, gibber plains, desert woodlands, freshwater and saline lakes, and riparian habitats along the three important desert waterways that converge on the property the Warburton and Macumba Rivers and Kallakoopah Creek.


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