 The region was the setting of the popular 1977 film "Storm Boy".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.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.