__NOTOC__ Nora Creina is a locality in the Australian state of

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located on the state’s south-east coast overlooking the

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. It is about to the north-west of the city of

Mount Gambier Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with an estimated urban population of 33,233 . The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about south-east of the capital Ad ...

and about south-east of the state capital of

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. Nora Creina was originally the name given to a

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site. Its boundaries were established in 1997 and 1999 respectively for the portions within the

Wattle Range Council Wattle Range Council is a local government area in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. It stretches from the coast at Beachport east to the Victorian border. It had a population of over 11,000 as at the 2016 Census. The council is ...

and the

District Council of Robe The District Council of Robe is a local government area located in the Limestone Coast area of South Australia. The main offices are in Robe, the town after which the council is named. The district relies on a mix of agriculture, fisheries and t ...

and include both the Nora Creina Shack Site and Little Dip Shack Area. The locality was given “the long established name” which is presumably derived from Nora Creina Bay which is located within the locality and which was named after Nora Creina Bacon, the daughter of Major General Anthony Bacon and

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and the wife of

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who was ‘an early settler in the area.’ Nora Creina occupies land along the coastline between the southern shore of Lake Robe in the north and in part by Lake George Road in the south. It is bounded to the east in the north by Lake Eliza and in south by the

Southern Ports Highway Southern Ports Highway is a rural highway in South Australia that connects Kingston SE with Millicent via Rendelsham, Southend, Beachport and Robe. It is a former alignment of Princes Highway, bypassed in 1933. Major intersections See ...

in the south. It includes the full extent of

Lake St Clair Lake St. Clair (french: Lac Sainte-Claire) is a freshwater lake that lies between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Michigan. It was named in 1679 by French Catholic explorers after Saint Clare of Assisi, on whose feast da ...

. Land use within the locality consists of

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with a strip of land along the coastline being zoned for

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which includes the protected area known as the

Little Dip Conservation Park Little Dip Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Limestone Coast about north-west of Mount Gambier, South Australia, Mount Gambier and about south of the town of Robe, South Australia, ...

at its northern end and land on the east side of Lake St Clair which includes the protected area known as the

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. A settlement is located to the south-east of the coastline of Nora Creina Bay within the jurisdiction of the District Council of Robe. The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Nora Creina shared a population of 36 people with the portion of the locality of Bray located within the Wattle Range Council. Nora Creina is located within the federal

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, the state

electoral district of MacKillop MacKillop is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was named in 1991 after Sister Mary MacKillop who served the local area, and later became the first Australian to be canonised as a Roman Catholic sa ...

and the local government areas of the

and the

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