__NOTOC__ Seal Bay is a locality in the Australian state of

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located on the south coast of

Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...

overlooking the body of water known in Australia as the

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and by international authorities as the

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. It is located about southwest of the state capital of

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and about south of the municipal seat of Kingscote. Its boundaries were created in 2002 in respect to “the long established name.” The majority land use within the locality is

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while a smaller amount of land within the centre of the locality is zoned for

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

. The former use consists of the full extent of the Seal Bay Conservation Park and part of the western end of the Cape Gantheaume Wilderness Protection Area which occupies part of the eastern side of the locality. Seal Bay is located within the federal

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, the state

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and the local government area of the

Kangaroo Island Council The Kangaroo Island Council is a local government area in South Australia that covers the entirety of Kangaroo Island, 13 km off the coast of the mainland. The council was formed on the 28 November 1996 by the amalgamation of the District ...

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;Notes ;Citations {{Kangaroo Island Council localities , state=collapsed Towns on Kangaroo Island