Nangkita South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 35°20′49″S 138°41′06″E / 35.346954°S 138.685099°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
Population | 204 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5210 | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
Location |
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LGA(s) | Alexandrina Council[1] | ||||||||||||||
Region | Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island[1] | ||||||||||||||
County | Hindmarsh[1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Finniss | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Mayo | ||||||||||||||
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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]