Adelaide. Belair National Park . Gum tree reflections in a rock pool. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Adelaide. Belair National Park . Gum tree reflections in a rock pool. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Once the government built the Governor’s summer residence at Belair (1859) they were responsible for most of the area that the National Park covers today. Part of it was later controlled by the Woods and Forests Department at the suggestion of the SA Surveyor General George Goyder. Experiments were made from the 1870s onwards with small plantations of pine, European trees and Australian hardwoods in a 500 acre section. Whilst under that department’s control a European style hawthorn maze was planted near Belair station in 1886 just three years after the train service was open. So the maze was planted years before the park was declared. The maze has six concentric circles of hawthorn with an open centre. It is just visible on a rise near the station. With shallow soils and no supplementary water the maze almost died out before a local Blackwood medical doctor wrote about it, organised a rescue project and obtained a government grant to do so. Dr Barry Long then wrote an article on the maze for the Australian Garden History Society of which he is a member. It was put on the Register of the National Estate in 1975 as the only surviving colonial maze in Australia. The maze was re-opened in 1991. It now has a water system and is reviving well. Belair National Park.When the park was declared the entrance from Belair Station and Sheoak Road was the main entrance to the park as almost all visitors came by train. But the origins of the park go back to the early days. A summer house for the governor was erected in 1859 and occupied from 1860 onwards until Marble Hill was completed in 1878. Government officials used the house after that time. Around 1880 the government tried to subdivide and sell the farm. This aroused public condemnation and a local Belair resident, Walter Gooch led a crusade to preserve the area, its fauna and flora. The railway brought visitors to the old government farm and from 1883 the Field Naturalists began to urge the creation of a national park. Gooch persisted and in 1891 the Belair National Park Act was passed. It was the second national park in Australia, after the Royal Park near Sydney and it was the fourth national Park in the world. The Belair Lodge House near Belair station, which is still occupied, was completed in 1893. Walter Gooch was made one of the first Commissioners of the National Park. Commissioners ran the park until 1972 when it was put under the control of the department of National Parks and Wildlife Service. |
| 撮影日 | 2018-09-01 16:25:21 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.01 sec (1/100) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.0 |