Langton Island

{{Short description|Island in South Australia}}

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Langton Island is a small, uninhabited island of the Sir Joseph Banks Group in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. The Island was named by Captain Matthew Flinders during his exploration of South Australia's coastline in 1802. Langton Island was named after Langton Hall in Lincolnshire.{{Cite news|date=1937-05-07|title=Valuable Book For Institute|pages=7|work=Port Lincoln Times (SA : 1927 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96729552|access-date=2021-06-20}} A "huge" breeding colony of Fairy terns was found on Langton Island by naturalists from the McCoy Society in 1937.{{Cite news|date=1937-03-10|title=SIR JOSEPH BANKS ISLANDS|pages=41|work=Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160504755|access-date=2020-06-22}} Fishermen have caught whiting in nearby waters.{{Cite news|date=1935-04-13|title=Seeing The Islands Of the S.A. Coast|pages=9|work=Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37280715|access-date=2021-06-20}}