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Judge cycling to obscure Australian location (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fremantle

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'judge cycling to obscure australian' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'location' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'location' could be 'mantle' (mantle is a kind of location) and 'mantle' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for fremantle that I've seen before include "Australian port" , "Port near Perth (Australia)" , "port appears" , "City serving Perth, Australia as its port" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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