The Woakwine Range is a low range of hills parallel to the coast in the southeast of

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. It extends from the coast at

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southeast to the

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area. The Woakwine range consists of

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beach and dune deposits from the

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Epoch. The Woakwine Conservation Park is near the northwestern end of the range, east of

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. The Woakwine Range blocked natural rainfall from draining to the coast, resulting in swamp and marshland inland of the range, which drained very slowly. In the first part of the 20th century, farmers desired to drain the swamps to increase the available farmland. The Woakwine Cutting was created in 1957 as a drainage cut through the range, draining into Lake George near

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. The

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and

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are on the ridge of the Woakwine Range in the vicinity of

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and Millicent.

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, the owner of Lake Bonney Wind Farm proposes to build the Woakwine Range Wind Farm continuing on from its current footprint.

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Mountain ranges of South Australia Limestone Coast {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub