Coorong, South Australia

For other uses, see Coorong.
Coorong
South Australia

View across the Coorong lagooon towards sandhills on Younghusband Peninsula
Coorong
Coordinates 36°07′S 139°36′E / 36.12°S 139.60°E / -36.12; 139.60Coordinates: 36°07′S 139°36′E / 36.12°S 139.60°E / -36.12; 139.60
Established 1998[1]
Postcode(s) 5264[2]
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location 80 km (50 mi) SE of Adelaide city centre[2]
LGA(s) Kingston[1]
Coorong[1]
State electorate(s) MacKillop[3]
Federal Division(s) Barker[4]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
20.8 °C
69 °F		 10.3 °C
51 °F		 468.3 mm
18.4 in
Suburbs around Coorong:
See Surrounding localities
Footnotes Location[2]
Coordinates[1]
Climate[5]

Coorong is a locality in South Australia which is associated with the lagoon known as the Coorong in the south-east of the state and which overlooks the continental coastline from the mouth of the Murray River about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south-east of the Adelaide city centre to the immediate north of the town of Kingston SE extending for a distance of at least 140 kilometres (87 mi).[2][1][6]

It extends from the Murray Mouth in the north to the northern end of the Paranki Lagoon in the south including:[7][8]

The boundaries of the locality were created firstly for the part within the Kingston District Council in 1998 and secondly for the part within the Coorong District Council in 2000 including the Villa De Yumpa Shack Site. The name is reported as being derived from the lagoon of the same name.[1] The boundary with the locality of Hindmarsh Island was altered in 2014 to move Bird Island, an island located north-east of the Murray Mouth, into the locality of Coorong.[9][10]

The principal land use in Coorong is conservation with the majority of the land being occupied by the Coorong National Park and the Mud Islands Game Reserve. [7][11][12]

The locality includes the following state heritage places: Magrath Flat Homestead, Teeluc Cottage and White Hut Cottage[13][14][15]

Coorong is located within the federal Division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government areas of the Kingston District Council and the The Coorong District Council.[7][4][3]

Surrounding localities

Coorong is bounded in the sector from the west to the south by the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight and bounded from the north-west to the south-east by the following localities gazetted under the South Australian Geographical Names Act 1991:[16][17][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Search result for "COORONG (LOCB)" (Record no SA0049955)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Coorong, South Australia". Postcodes Australia. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 "District of MacKillop Background Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Barker" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics MENINGIE (nearest station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands (RIS) - The Coorong, and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Wetland" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Ramsar Secretariat (RAMSAR). 2013. p. 4. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Search result for "COORONG (LOCB)" (Record no SA0049955) with the following layers selected - “Suburbs and Localities” and "Local Government Areas"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA); Department for Environment and Heritage (2005), South Australia's waters an atlas & guide, Boating Industry Association of South Australia, pp. 27, 30 and 35–39, ISBN 978-1-86254-680-6
  9. ↑ Burdett, Michael (8 May 2014). "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Alter Boundaries of Places" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette (The Government of South Australia): 1587. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Boating Industry Association of South Australia (BIA); South Australia. Department for Environment and Heritage (2005), South Australia's waters an atlas & guide, Boating Industry Association of South Australia, pp. 35 & 36, ISBN 978-1-86254-680-6
  11. ↑ "Development Plan, The Coorong District Council, Consolidated – 18 December 2014". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 119–120, 265, 268, 269, 272, 308, 311, 322, 329, 330, 337, 347, 348, 352 & 353. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Development Plan, Kingston District Council, Consolidated – 13 December 2012". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 126–127, 205, 211, 222 & 227. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  13. ↑ "Magrath (sometimes McGrath) Flat Homestead, including Dwelling, Stables, Smithy, Shearers' Quarters and Woolshed". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  14. ↑ "COTTAGE (TEELUC)". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  15. ↑ "COTTAGE, WHITE HUT". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  16. ↑ "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition" (PDF) (PDF). International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. pp. 35–36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  17. ↑ "AHS – AA609582" (PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
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