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The Coorong lies within the traditional lands of the Ngarrindjeri people, an Aboriginal Australian group. Notable locations within the park include Salt Creek, Policeman's Point, Jack Point, and Woods Well. Sunset over the northern part of The Coorong, approaching the town of Meningie, South Australia. Flock of banded stilts on sand flats at ...
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 ...
List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia is a list of islands located within the watercourse of the Murray River within the Australian state of South Australia from the mouth of the river at Encounter Bay in the south to the borders with the states of New South Wales and Victoria in the east including the following lakes located adjacent to the river's mouth - Coorong, Lake ...
Younghusband Peninsula is a long narrow peninsula in South Australia. It separates the Coorong Channel, the Tauwitchere Channel and the Coorong which are part of the estuary of the River Murray from the Southern Ocean which including water bodies such as Encounter and Lacepede Bays. It lies entirely within the Coorong National Park.
Between 2002 and 2006, two machines operated moving sand from the channel to maintain a minimal flow from the sea and into the Coorong's lagoon system. [12] Without the 24-hour dredging, the mouth was at risk of becoming silted and closing, cutting the supply of fresh seawater into the Coorong, which would then warm up, stagnate and die. [12]
Just like Canada, with a state population of more than 100,000, South Australia's Coorong region has had a problem with the long-nosed fur seal population for quite South Australia wants to use ...
This is a table of river distances of various locations along the Murray River upstream from Echuca, Victoria and Mannum, South Australia, arguably the two most important river ports in the steamboat era.
Sumner has run the three-day Dupang Pangari (Coorong Spirit) Festival [22] at Long Point,Coorong [23] (on Ngarrindjeri land, adjacent to Coorong National Park, as part of the Adelaide Fringe several times. In 2018, the event won the BankSA Best Event Award. [12]