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
Coordinates 35°44′04″S 137°54′18″E / 35.73457°S 137.905030°E / -35.73457; 137.905030Coordinates: 35°44′04″S 137°54′18″E / 35.73457°S 137.905030°E / -35.73457; 137.905030
Population 319 (shared with other localities in the “State Suburb of Island Beach”) (2011 census)[1][lower-alpha 1]
Established 2002[2]
Postcode(s) 5222[3]
Time zone ACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST) ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location 110 km (68 mi) south of Adelaide city centre
LGA(s) Kangaroo Island Council[2]
State electorate(s) Finniss[4]
Federal Division(s) Mayo[5]
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
Footnotes Coordinates[2]
Locations[3]
Climate[6]
Adjoining localities[2]

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 mi) south of the Adelaide city centre.[2][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.[2] 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.[2][7] The majority land use in the locality is agriculture.[2][7] Kangaroo Head is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Finniss and the local government area of the Kangaroo Island Council.[2][4][5]

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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. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Island Beach". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "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. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Postcode for Kangaroo Head, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  4. 1 2 "District of Finniss Background Profile". ELECTORAL COMMISSION SA. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KINGSCOTE". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  7. 1 2 "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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