__NOTOC__ Lincoln National Park is a locality located on the Jussieu Peninsula at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula in the

Australian state The states and territories are federated administrative divisions in Australia, ruled by regional governments that constitute the second level of governance between the federal government and local governments. States are self-governing ...

of South Australia about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south of the city of Port Lincoln. The boundaries of the locality were created on 30 September 2003 for the “long established name.” The locality covers the full extent of the Jussieu Peninsula east of the eastern boundary of the cadastral unit, the Hundred of Sleaford. The full extent of the locality does align with the full extent of the Hundred of Flinders, a cadastral unit with an area of , and which was proclaimed by Governor Le Hunte in 1903 and which was named after the British navigator,

Matthew Flinders Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to u ...

. The principal land use within the locality is conservation with its full extent being occupied by the following

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...

s - the portion of the

Lincoln National Park Lincoln National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south of the municipal seat of Port Lincoln. It consists of a mainland area on the Jussieu Pen ...

located within the Hundred of Flinders and the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area. The locality includes the two following state heritage places - the site of the memorial (known as the

Memory Cove Tablet Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembere ...

) installed by Flinders in 1802 at Memory Cove in memory of the loss of eight crew from HMS ''Investigator'' and the Flinders Monument at Stamford Hill. Lincoln National Park is located within the federal

Division of Grey The Division of Grey is an Australian electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named for Sir George Grey, who wa ...

, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.

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