Coorong is a locality in the Australian state of 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 miles) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide to the immediate north of the town of Kingston SE extending for a distance of at least 140 kilometres (87 mi).[1][3][7]
the following bodies of water with the Murray River system - Port Pullen, Coorong Channel, the Tauwitchere Channel and the full extent of the Coorong lagoon system,
the following major islands - Bird, Ewe, Long, Mud and Tauwitchere
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]
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:[1][16][17]
^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, ISBN978-1-86254-680-6
^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, ISBN978-1-86254-680-6
^"AHS – AA609582"(PDF) (PDF). The Australian Hydrographic Service. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original(PDF) on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
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