Cooltong is a town and locality in the Australian state of

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

. The name ''Cooltong'' is derived from a local

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name meaning "lizard place", and had been in use in the area for many decades before the town was established. The first instance of the name Cooltong in the South Australian newspapers was in 1898, reporting on an unusual weather event that occurred near Renmark, beginning in the Cooltong Hills. The town of Cooltong was surveyed in 1949. Much of the land was granted as

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blocks after

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, and is irrigated and planted with grapevines, citrus or other fruit trees. The

Cooltong Conservation Park __NOTOC__ Cooltong Conservation Park is a protected area located in South Australia about west of the town of Renmark in the Riverland of South Australia. The conservation park was proclaimed under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'' ...

is southwest of the town.

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