Woakwine Range

The Woakwine Range is a low range of hills parallel to the coast in the southeast of South Australia. It extends from the coast at Cape Jaffa southeast to the Kongorong area.

For other uses, see Woakwine.

Woakwine Range
Highest point
Coordinates37.42°S 140.07°E / -37.42; 140.07
Geography
LocationLimestone Coast, South Australia

The Woakwine range consists of calcrete beach and dune deposits from the Pleistocene Epoch.[1]

The Woakwine Conservation Park is near the northwestern end of the range, east of Robe.[2]: 9 

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 Beachport.[3]

The Lake Bonney Wind Farm and Canunda Wind Farm are on the ridge of the Woakwine Range in the vicinity of Tantanoola and Millicent. Infigen Energy, the owner of Lake Bonney Wind Farm proposes to build the Woakwine Range Wind Farm continuing on from its current footprint.[4]

References
  1. P. J. Cookl; J. B. Colwell; J. B. Firman; J. M . Lindsay; D. A. Schwebef; C. C. Von der Borch (1977). "The late Cainozoic sequence of southeast South Australia and Pleistocene sea-level changes" (PDF). BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  2. "Woakwine Conservation Reserve Management Plan" (PDF). Department for Environment and Heritage, Government of South Australia. December 2000. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  3. "Woakwine Cutting". Wattle Range Council. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  4. "Woakwine Wind Farm development approval". Infigen Energy. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2018.


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