Kangaroo Head, South Australia

This article is about the locality in South Australia. For the associated headland, see Kangaroo Head.

Kangaroo Head
South Australia
Kangaroo Head is located in South Australia
Kangaroo Head
Kangaroo Head
Coordinates35°44′04″S 137°54′18″E / 35.734570°S 137.905030°E / -35.734570; 137.905030
Population319 (shared with other localities in the “State Suburb of Island Beach”) (2011 census)[2][a]
Established2002[1]
Postcode(s)5222[3]
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location110 km (68 mi) south of Adelaide
LGA(s)Kangaroo Island Council[1]
RegionFleurieu and Kangaroo Island[4]
CountyCarnarvon[1]
State electorate(s)Mawson[5]
Federal division(s)Mayo[6]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
19.1 °C
66 °F		 11.6 °C
53 °F		 488.9 mm
19.2 in
Suburbs around Kangaroo Head:
Nepean Bay Investigator Strait Backstairs Passage
Nepean Bay Kangaroo Head Penneshaw
Dudley East
American Beach Dudley West Dudley East
FootnotesCoordinates[1]
Locations[3]
Climate[7]
Adjoining localities[1]

Kangaroo Head is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island overlooking both Backstairs Passage and Nepean Bay about 110 kilometres (68 miles) south of the state capital of Adelaide.[1][3]

Its boundaries were created in March 2002 for the “long established name” which is derived from Kangaroo Head, a headland located within the locality.[1]

As of 2015, Kangaroo Head consists generally of a strip of land located between the Hog Bay Road and the coastline with Backstairs Passage and Nepean Bay.[1][8] The majority land use in the locality is agriculture.[1][8]

Kangaroo Head is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson and the local government area of the Kangaroo Island Council.[1][5][6]

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Notes
  1. ^ For the 2011 census, the State Suburb of Island Beach covered the full extent of the Dudley Peninsula with the exception of Penneshaw - refer Dudley Peninsula#Demographics for more information
Citations
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Search result for "Kangaroo Head (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0058060) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Island Beach". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 May 2016. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b c "Postcode for Kangaroo Head, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  5. ^ a b Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KINGSCOTE". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council, Consolidated – 20 February 2014" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 152, 153 and 302–305. Retrieved 8 March 2016.


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