Kangaroo Head, South Australia

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

Kangaroo Head
Town
Kangaroo Head
Coordinates: 35°44′04″S137°54′18″E / 35.734570°S 137.905030°E / -35.734570; 137.905030
Country	Australia
State	South Australia
Region	Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island [1]
LGA	Kangaroo Island Council
Location	110 km (68 mi) south of Adelaide
Established	2002 [2]
Government
•  State electorate	Mawson [3]
•  Federal division	Mayo [4]
Population
• Total	18 (SAL 2021) [5]
Time zone	UTC+9:30 (ACST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+10:30 (ACST)
Postcode	5222 [6]
County	Carnarvon [2]
Mean max temp	19.1 °C (66.4 °F)
Mean min temp	11.6 °C (52.9 °F)
Annual rainfall	488.9 mm (19.25 in)
Localities around Kangaroo Head Nepean Bay Investigator Strait Backstairs Passage Nepean Bay Kangaroo Head Penneshaw Dudley East American Beach Dudley West Dudley East
Coordinates [2] Locations [6] Climate [7] 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 miles) south of the state capital of Adelaide. ^{[2] [6]}

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] [8]} The majority land use in the locality is agriculture. ^{[2] [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. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

See also

• Kangaroo (disambiguation)

References

Notes

Citations

1. "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
2. "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.
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). "Kangaroo Head (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
6. "Postcode for Kangaroo Head, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
7. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KINGSCOTE". Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
8. "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.