__NOTOC__ West Range is a locality in the Australian state of

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located on the state’s south-east coast overlooking Lacepede Bay which is part of the body of water known in

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as the

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and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight. It is about south-east of the Adelaide city centre and south of the centre of Mount Gambier. Boundaries were created in December 1998 for the “long established name” which was ‘identified’ by the

District Council of Lacepede Lacepede can refer to: * Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756–1825), French naturalist and politician. * Lacepede Bay, a bay in South Australia. * Lacépède, Lot-et-Garonne, a ''commune'' in France * Lacepede Islands, a group of four islands i ...

. West Range consists of land along the continental coastline extending from the northern end of Paranki Lagoon in the north to the Blackford Drain in the south and from the coast to the West Range Road in the east. The

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passes through the locality from north to south between the coastline and the west side of an area of land subject to inundation and including the following water bodies (from north to south) - Paranki Lagoon, Partiari and Teilaka. The majority land use within the locality is

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with a strip of land between the coastline and the Princes Highway and the full extent of the protected area associated with the Paranki Lagoon, i.e. the

Paranki Lagoon Conservation Park Paranki Lagoon Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east in the gazetted locality of West Range, South Australia, West Range about north of the town of Kingston SE, South ...

, being zoned for

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. West Range is located within the federal division of Barker, 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.

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