__NOTOC__ West Range is a locality in the Australian state of

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located on the state's south-east coast overlooking

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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

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. It is about south-east of the

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and south of the centre of

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. Boundaries were created in December 1998 for the “long established name” which was ‘identified’ by the District Council of Lacepede. 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, being zoned for

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. West Range is located within the federal

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, the state

electoral district of MacKillop MacKillop is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, 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 Australia ...

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 dis ...

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