Nangkita, South Australia

Town in South Australia

35°20′49″S 138°41′06″E / 35.346954°S 138.685099°E / -35.346954; 138.685099^[1]Population204 (2016 census)^[2]Postcode(s)5210Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30) • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)Location

60 km (37 mi) south of Adelaide
8 km (5 mi) east of Mount Compass
22 km (14 mi) northwest of Goolwa, South Australia

LGA(s)Alexandrina Council^[1]Region Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island^[1]CountyHindmarsh^[1]State electorate(s)Finniss Federal division(s)Mayo

Localities around Nangkita:
Yundi	Yundi Mount Magnificent	Mount Magnificent Ashbourne
Mount Compass	Nangkita	Ashbourne Mount Observation Tooperang
Mount Compass	Mount Compass Tooperang	Tooperang

FootnotesAdjoining localities^[1]

Nangkita is a rural locality on Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, south of the capital, Adelaide.

Nangkita was founded as a Village Settlement in the 1890s as a commune in a scheme set up by the South Australian government under Part VII of the Crown Lands Amendment Act 1893,^[3] intended to mitigate the effects of the depression then affecting the Colony. The settlement grew a magnificent crop of tobacco, but the potato and onion crops were ravaged by grubs.^[4] The commune closed not long after that.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Search results for 'Nangkita, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Government Towns', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Nangkita (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ "The Crown Lands Amendment Act, 1893 (SA )". Part VII. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
^ "Nangkita Village Settlement". Weekly Herald. Vol. IV, no. 175. South Australia. 12 February 1898. p. 6. Retrieved 11 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Untitled". South Australian Register. Vol. LXIII, no. 16, 079. South Australia. 26 May 1898. p. 4. Retrieved 11 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.