South Stirling is a townsite and

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of the

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in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The entirety of the townsite is now located within the South Stirling Nature Reserve. it is located north-east of Albany. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 22. It is situated at the foot of the

Stirling Range The Stirling Range or Koikyennuruff is a range of mountains and hills in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, south-east of Perth. It is over wide from west to east, stretching from the highway between Mount Barker and Cranbro ...

. Other close small towns are Mount Barker, Wellstead, and Manypeaks. The town was gazetted in 1959 and named after the near-by

. The town was established in the early 1950s as part of the South Stirlings War Service Land Settlement Scheme but it was only gazetted after enough settlers had been attracted. It is the hometown of

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player Kathryn Slattery, who represents Australia in field hockey.

Nature reserve

The South Stirling Nature Reserve was gazetted on 15 March 1963, has a size of , and is located within the

Esperance Plains Esperance Plains, also known as Eyre Botanical District, is a biogeography, biogeographic region in southern Western Australia on the South_coast_of_Western_Australia , south coast between the Avon Wheatbelt and Hampton bioregions, and bordere ...

bioregion.

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