Nangkita, South Australia

Nangkita South Australia
Nangkita
Coordinates	35°20′49″S 138°41′06″E[1]
Population	204 (2016 census)[2]
Postcode(s)	5210
Time zone	ACST (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]
County	Hindmarsh[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
Footnotes	Adjoining 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]

See also

• Cox Scrub Conservation Park

References

1. "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.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Nangkita (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
3. "The Crown Lands Amendment Act, 1893 (SA )". Part VII. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
4. "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.
5. "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.