Back كينغسكوت Arabic Kingscote (lungsod sa Ostralya) CEB Kingscote (Australien) German Kingscote Spanish Kingscote Estonian کینگزکات، استرالیای جنوبی Persian Kingscote French Kingscote Italian 킹스콧 Korean Kingscote NN
| Kingscote South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 35°39′11″S 137°38′03″E / 35.65306°S 137.63417°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 1,790 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1836 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5223[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 119 km (74 mi) south-west of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Kangaroo Island Council | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island[3] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Carnarvon[4] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mawson[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Mayo[6] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Location[2] Climate[7] Adjoining localities[4] | ||||||||||||||
Kingscote is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located on Kangaroo Island about 119 kilometres (74 mi) south-west of the state capital of Adelaide.[4][2] It is South Australia's oldest European settlement and the island's largest town.[8] At the 2016 census, Kingscote had a population of 1,790.[1] It is a well-established tourist centre and the administrative and communications centre. It is home to a colony of the smallest penguins in the world, the Australian little penguin.
The town is served by Kingscote Airport with passenger flights on two airlines.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Kingscote (Urban Centre and Localities)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "Postcode for Kingscote, South Australia". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ a b c "Search result for "Kingscote (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0036764) with the following layers selected – "Suburbs and Localities", ""Government Towns" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ^ "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
- ^ "Climate statistics for Kingscote". Australian Government, Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
- ^ Kingscote, South Australia Archived 10 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine Travelmate, Accessed 3 August 2018
