American Beach, South Australia

American Beach
Town
American Beach
Coordinates: 35°46′08″S137°52′49″E / 35.768780°S 137.880240°E / -35.768780; 137.880240
Country	Australia
State	South Australia
Region	Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island [1]
LGA	Kangaroo Island Council
Location	115 km (71 mi) south-west of Adelaide 25 km (16 mi) east of Kingscote
Established	2002 [2]
Government
•  State electorate	Mawson [3]
•  Federal division	Mayo [4]
Population
• Total	0 (SAL 2021) [5]
Time zone	UTC+9:30 (ACST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+10:30 (ACST)
Postcode	5222 [6]
County	Carnarvon [2]
Mean max temp	18.1 °C (64.6 °F)
Mean min temp	12.8 °C (55.0 °F)
Annual rainfall	538.4 mm (21.20 in)
Localities around American Beach Nepean Bay Nepean Bay Kangaroo Head Nepean Bay American Beach Dudley West Baudin Beach Dudley West Dudley West
Coordinates [2] Locations [6] Climate [7] Adjoining localities [2]

American Beach is a locality in South Australia on the north coast of the Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island, overlooking Nepean Bay, about 115 kilometres (71 miles) south-west of Adelaide. ^{[2] [6]}

The name is derived from the nearby beach of the same name. The locality is zoned for conservation purposes with the view of providing limited built development intended principally for tourism uses, which has a minimal impact and where provided, complements the environment of the locality. ^{[2] [8]}

The gazetted locality boundaries were created in March 2002. As of 2015, it consists of a strip of land located between the coastline with Nepean Bay and the Hog Bay Road. It is “not to be confused with the former American Beach Estate subdivision”, which was also gazetted in 2002 as Baudin Beach. ^[2]

American Beach is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson and the local government area of the Kangaroo Island Council. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

References

1. "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
2. "Search result for "American Beach(Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0058055) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Local Government Areas"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
3. Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
4. "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
5. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "American Beach (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
6. "Postcode for American Beach, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
7. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics CAPE WILLOUGHBY (nearest station)". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
8. "Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 114, 115, 305 and 386. Retrieved 8 March 2016.