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[2] Investigator Strait[2] Backstairs Passage[2]
Nepean Bay[2] Kangaroo Head Penneshaw
Dudley East[2]
American Beach[2] Dudley West[2] Dudley East[2]
Footnotes Coordinates[2]
Locations[3]
Climate[6]

Kangaroo Head is a locality in 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. The State Suburb of Island Beach covers the full extent of the Dudley Peninsula with the exception of Penneshaw.
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