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Wangolina is a locality in the Australian state of
South Australia
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located on the state’s south-east coast overlooking the body of water known in
Australia
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as the
Southern Ocean
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and by international authorities as the
Great Australian Bight
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Extent
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. It is about south-east of the
Adelaide city centre
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and south of the centre 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 ...
.
Boundaries were created in December 1998 for the “long established name” which is derived from Wangolina Station, once an outstation of the nearby Woolmit station but later a property in its own right.
The Wangolina drain joins the Butchers Gap Drain which is part of the drainage infrastructure built in the south east of the state since European settlement.
Wangolina consists of land along the coastline associated with the Cape Jaffa
Cape Jaffa is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located at the south end of Lacepede Bay on the state's south east coast about south west of the town centre of Kingston SE. The cape is described as being "a low sandy point" ...
promontory which its shares with the gazetted locality of Cape Jaffa
Cape Jaffa is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located at the south end of Lacepede Bay on the state's south east coast about south west of the town centre of Kingston SE. The cape is described as being "a low sandy point" ...
. Wangolina has coastline frontage to both Lacepede Bay
Lacepede Bay (french: Baie Lacépède) is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's south-east coast about northwest of Mount Gambier and about southeast of Adelaide. It was named in 1802 by the Baudin expedit ...
in the north and to the ocean in the south. 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
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passes through the locality from Kingston SE in the north to Robe in the south.[
The majority land use within the locality is ]agriculture
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with a strip of land adjoining the coastline being zoned for conservation
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Conservation may also refer to:
Environment and natural resources
* Nature conservation, the protection and manageme ...
.[
Wangolina is located within the federal ]division of Barker
The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member div ...
, 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 area of the Kingston District Council
The Kingston District Council (formerly District Council of Lacepede) is a local government area in the Limestone Coast, South Australia established in 1873. Kingston SE is the largest town of the district and also the seat of council.
The dist ...
.[
]
History
The traditional owners of the hundred are the Ngarrindjerri people
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s.
The first Europeans
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to the area were Peron in 1903 and Freycinet of the Baudin expedition to Australia
The Baudin expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland (now Australia). Nicolas Baudin was selected as leader in October 1800. The expedition started with two ships, '' Géographe'', captained by Baudin, an ...
1800 to 1803..
References
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Towns in South Australia
Limestone Coast