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The Woakwine Range continues south-easterly into the Hundred of Kongo- 
rong as a low range which appears to have no definite official or local name. 
We therefore have given the name “‘Kongorong Range’? to that portion of 
this important South-East ridge system lying in the Hundred of Kongorong and 
commencing to the east of the lower end of Lake Bonney and continning in & 
sonth-easterly direction. The land between the Kongorong Range and the sea 
is undulate; and although it contains a number of extensive swamp areas, it seems 
in general ito be better drained than the coastal strip to the ndrth-west of Lake 
Bonney. 
The chief undulations between the Kongorong Range and the sea, are two 
fairly definite minor ridges. These ridges appear to have no official ur local 
names, so far convenience of our study and descriptions we have apphed to them 
terms which have been given officially to adjacent parallel depressions and have 
named them the ‘‘Whawhe Ridge’’ and the ‘‘Long Gully Ridge.”’ 
We have learnt fron old inhabitants of the district that this now mostly oper 
Kongorong country was, sixty to seventy years ago, heavily clad with timbher, 
80 much so that ‘‘one could, scarcely see more than fifty yards shead.”’ The early 
settlers in the district ringharked most of the timber which later was almost 
completely obliterated by one or two big bushfires. 
The western evastal portion of this Hundred is level country, now drained 
to some extent by two small artificial outlets to the sea; but further to the south- 
east extensive swamp areas still persist, The earlier lands surveys indicate the 
former existence of numerous swamp areas and springs. 
Tn general, it may be said that this area has always been a well-watered 
terrain. 
A short paper by 8, R, Mitchell (1949) gives an account, of a visit to this 
area, Tis report contains some geological notes and mentions that ‘‘seven sites 
were examined and a large number (240) of implements eollected.’’ No deserip- 
tions or locations of the camp sites are given, nor any detailed classification or 
census of the implements gathered, It is stated the camping placed are on the 
**Kongorong Hills,’’ all the camps being ‘‘at least. five miles inland.’’ If these 
hills are the same as those we haye called the Kongorong Range, then the sites 
of this writer are not the same as, or further inland than, those we examined— 
the latter being about three miles from the sea, The presentation of the data 
in the paper by Mitchell was probably necessarily brief, and therefore it is difflenit 
fo use them for comparison with those of the present work. 
Area Investigated. Tho working base of the party was located at a small 
limestone point on the coast known as Blackfellows Caves. From there various 
journeys were made to look for and study such camp site remnants as gould be 
located. Information previously obtained from Mr. Kurtze, of Portland, who had 
sollected aboriginal implements in this region some years ago, suggested that camp 
sites would be fairly plentiful. Our survey showed this to be correct. Excepting 
at certain areas where swampland lies close to the sea, almost the whole immediate 
coastline presents a continuous series of camp site remnants. Camp areas also 
occur on the ridges lying inland, especially on the Kongorong Range. Preliminary 
reconnaisance was made for a few miles along the coastal areas to the north-west 
and the south-east of our base and also to the inland ridges so that the more 
promising sites could be selected for further detailed study, 
The map shows the locations of the main ¢amp areas located, and those given 
special attention are described below, All the sites occur in the Hundred pf 
Kongorong, and their location has been determined by recording the section 
numbers in which they occur. 
