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South Australian wilderness inventory

Created 20/12/2025

Updated 20/12/2025

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The Wilderness Inventory was first prepared in the early 1990s as a series of maps identifying wilderness quality through two key attributes: remoteness and naturalness.

While the dataset had not been updated for many years, it remained a valuable baseline tool in South Australia for implementing the Wilderness Protection Act 1992 (WP Act), which requires that all land in the state is assessed for its wilderness quality.

In late 2022, the Department for Environment and Water (DEW), in partnership with the Parks and Wilderness Council and The Wilderness Society, commissioned the University of Queensland to develop an updated Wilderness Inventory. This study used two refined attributes for identifying wilderness quality: modern industrial levels and habitat area, quality and fragmentation.

The outputs of this study include a technical report, spatial datasets (including a metadata file), and a map of the state.

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Field Value
Title South Australian wilderness inventory
Language eng
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1cb2bb5a-aab4-45e6-b59e-5d669f9056c7
Remote Last Updated 30/06/2025
Contact Point
Department for Environment and Water
blair.pellegrino@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 20/12/2023 - 20/12/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    135.866666,
    -29.383333
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal South Australia Government
Geospatial Topics
  • Environment

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "South Australian wilderness inventory". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-wilderness-inventory