Nangkita, South Australia

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Nangkita

| state = sa

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| coordinates = {{coord|35.346954|S|138.685099|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coord_ref = {{cite web|title=Search results for 'Nangkita, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and localities', 'Counties', 'Government Towns', 'Hundreds', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and 'Gazetteer'|url= http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=138.69387&y=-35.34267&z=14&uids=19,2,115,11,20,105&pinx=138.686470&piny=-35.345500&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Nangkita,+Locb |website=Location SA Map Viewer|publisher=South Australian Government|accessdate=3 July 2019}}

| pop = 204

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}

| pop_footnotes={{Census 2016 AUS | id = SSC40998 | name = Nangkita (State Suburb) | accessdate = 16 June 2021 | quick = on}}

| established =

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| postcode = 5210

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| timezone = ACST

| utc = +9:30

| timezone-dst = ACST

| utc-dst = +10:30

| dist1 = 60

| dir1 = south

| location1 = Adelaide

| dist2 = 8

| dir2 = east

| location2 = Mount Compass

| dist3 = 22

| dir3 = northwest

| location3 = Goolwa, South Australia

| lga = Alexandrina Council

| region = Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island

| county = Hindmarsh

| stategov = Finniss

| fedgov = Mayo

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| near-n = Yundi
Mount Magnificent

| near-ne = Mount Magnificent
Ashbourne

| near-e = Ashbourne
Mount Observation
Tooperang

| near-se = Tooperang

| near-s = Mount Compass
Tooperang

| near-sw = Mount Compass

| near-w = Mount Compass

| near-nw = Yundi

| footnotes = Adjoining localities

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Nangkita is a rural locality on Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, south of the capital, Adelaide.

Nangkita was founded as a Village Settlement in the 1890s as a commune in a scheme set up by the South Australian government under Part VII of the Crown Lands Amendment Act 1893,{{cite web |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/num_act/cla584o56a57v1893227/ |title=The Crown Lands Amendment Act, 1893 (SA ) |at=Part VII |accessdate=4 October 2015}} intended to mitigate the effects of the depression then affecting the Colony. The settlement grew a magnificent crop of tobacco, but the potato and onion crops were ravaged by grubs.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111639832 |title=Nangkita Village Settlement |newspaper=Weekly Herald |volume=IV |issue=175 |location=South Australia |date=12 February 1898 |accessdate=11 August 2017 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} The commune closed not long after that.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54551439 |title=Untitled |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=LXIII |issue=16,079 |location=South Australia |date=26 May 1898 |accessdate=11 August 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}