Echidna.edu.au
Title
Pelican Lagoon Research Centre
Description
Scientists, volunteer visitors and the local community have combined their talents to produce the Pelican Lagoon Research & Wildlife Centre- a place of ideas, not things.
Free from the impact of rabbits and foxes, it provides a series of Australian habitats which permit field research under near-pristine conditions. Situated on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, is a unique research centre, based on 150 Ha. of private land along the northern shore of Pelican Lagoon.
It was in this area in 1803 that some of the first scientific collections and observations were made by Robert Brown in the newly-discovered South Australia. Since that time these same waters and adjacent land have been periodically used by scientists who recognised the unique conditions of this natural laboratory.
