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wrong Innes is a national park on the southwest tip of Yorke
Peninsula in South Australia (Australia), 160 km west of
Adelaide. Innes is the largest area of native vegetation
remaining on the Yorke Peninsula, providing habitat for 115
species of conservation significance. The Narungga people
occupied the Yorke Peninsula for thousands of years. They
consisted of four clans, the Kurnara of the north, the Windera
of the east, the Wari of the West and the Dilpa of the south.
European colonisation of the area began in 1846 with sheep
grazing near Cape Spencer. Crops were grown on a small scale in
the 19th and early 20th century. Innes National Park was named
after William Innes, who discovered commercial quantities of
gypsum in the early 1900s and founded the mining town