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The Tower Hill State Game Reserve is located in Victoria (Australia), 275 km west of Melbourne, and 15 km north-west of Warrnambool. It encompasses the Tower Hill volcano and wetland and is 6.14 km² in area.〔Australian Nature Conservation Agency. (1996). ''Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia''. (2nd edition, pp.740-1). ANCA: Canberra. ISBN 0-642-21378-X〕 Tower Hill became Victoria's first National Park in 1892 (). It was declared a State Game Reserve in 1961. At present, firearms are banned from the Reserve. While earlier part of the Shire of Koroit (), immediately prior to 1994, it was an unincorporated area managed in conjunction with Lady Julia Percy Island. It then became part of Moyne Shire. () Aboriginal kitchen middens at Tower Hill show 5000-year-old Tasmanian devil bones.〔Owen, David; Pemberton, David (2005). Tasmanian Devil: A unique and threatened animal. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-74114-368-3. p.41.〕 The site is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tower Hill State Game Reserve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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