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SOUTH
AUSTRALIA

Locator Map
C C Coorong National Park is a beautiful oorong National Park is a beautiful oorong National Park
series of lagoons separated from the
Murray
Bridge ocean by a sandhill peninsula, Key
145 km (90 miles) long. More than
240 bird species can be seen in Highway
the park, which is also perfect Major road
for beach fishing, walking
and canoeing. Minor road
River
Meningie

SOUTHERN Coorong National Park
Limestone Coast
OCEAN

McLaren Vale, just inland
from the coast of the Fleurieu
Peninsula, is an important
wine-producing region in
South Australia. In addition
to more than 160 wineries,
most of which are open for
tastings, the Vale has many
excellent restaurants. On the
main road is the Visitors’
Centre, which is staffed
8. Robe  S D 7 m  Kingston SE by volunteers.
This pretty fishing port and
holiday centre has many old
buildings, a swimming beach 0 km 20
and rugged shoreline. In 1865, 0 miles 20
more than 16,500 Chinese
landed here and walked to
Victoria’s gold fields to avoid
an immigration tax payable
by those landing in Victoria.

9. Beachport  S D m 
Historic Beachport was first settled as a
whaling station in the 1830s. Today it is
a quiet, unspoiled haven with swimming,
surfing and fishing from its beaches, and Millicent
a host of other water sports available. Canunda Mount
National Gambier
Park