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==History== The Coorong National Park was proclaimed on 9 November 1967 under the ''National Parks Act 1966'' in respect to land in sections 17 and 60 in the cadastral unit of the [[Hundred of Glyde]] and section 6 in the [[Hundred of Santo]].<ref name="SAGG-1967"/> At the commencement of the ''[[National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972]]'' on 27 April 1972, the national park consisted of land in sections 17, 59 and 60 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Glyde and sections 6, 43 and 52 in the Hundred of Santo.<ref name=NPWact>{{cite journal |title= No. 56 of 1972 (National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1972) |journal= The South Australian Government Gazette |date= 27 April 1972 |page= 700 |url= http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/num_act/npawa56o1972293/ |access-date= 20 January 2017 |publisher= Government of South Australia}}</ref> The '''Coorong Game Reserve''' which was purchased by the Government of South Australia in 1968 was abolished on 14 January 1993 and its lands was added to the national park.<ref name=CGR1993>{{cite journal |title= NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1972 PART HI: RECONSTITUTION OF THE COORONG GAME RESERVE AS PART OF THE COORONG NATIONAL PARK |journal= The South Australian Government Gazette |date= 14 January 1993 |page= 170 |url= http://www6.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1993/6/170.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628204316/http://www6.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1993/6/170.pdf |archive-date=2023-06-28 |url-status=live |access-date= 7 January 2018 |publisher= Government of South Australia}}</ref> The game reserve occupied part of the Coorong lagoon to the immediate west of [[Salt Creek, South Australia|Salt Creek]] and had an area of {{convert|68.4|km2}} as of May 1982.<ref name=Ruddock>{{cite report | last = Rudduck | first = Penny |title=EUROPEAN HERITAGE OF THE COORONG, A general survey of the sites of Early European Heritage of the area now comprising the Coorong National Park and Coorong Game Reserve. |date= May 1982 |url= https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/heritage-surveys/2-Coorong-European-Heritage-1982.pdf |access-date= 6 January 2018 |publisher= National Parks and Wildlife Service, Government of South Australia}}</ref>{{rp|79}} In February 2013, a lifeboat from ''[[MS Oliva]]'', a ship that foundered in the [[South Atlantic]] during 2011, washed up on a beach in the national park.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shipwreck lifeboat washes up in Australia |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-06/shipwreck-lifeboat-washes-up-in-australia/4503618 |website=ABC News Online |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=7 May 2019 |date=6 February 2013}}</ref>
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