| Kapunda South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Looking towards the Baptist church | |||||||||||||||
  Kapunda | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°20′20″S 138°55′00″E / 34.33889°S 138.91667°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 2,917 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1839 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5373 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 245 m (804 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 77 km (48 mi) north of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Light Regional Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Frome | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Barker | ||||||||||||||
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Kapunda is a town on the Light River near the Barossa Valley in South Australia. It was established after a discovery in 1842 of significant copper deposits. The population was 2,917 at the 2016 Australian census.
The southern entrance to the town has been dominated since 1988 by the 8-metre (26 ft) statue of Map Kernow ("the son of Cornwall"), a traditional Cornish miner. The statue was destroyed by a fire in June 2006 but was rebuilt.
- ^ "2016 Census QuickStats: Kapunda". Quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Retrieved 11 December 2021.