Yankalilla, South Australia
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Yankalilla South Australia |
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 Yankalilla
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| Coordinates | 35°27′0″S 138°21′0″E / 35.45000°S 138.35000°ECoordinates: 35°27′0″S 138°21′0″E / 35.45000°S 138.35000°E | ||||||
| Population | 319 (2006 census) | ||||||
| • Density | 118.1/km2 (306/sq mi) | ||||||
| Established | 1842 | ||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5203 | ||||||
| Area | 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi) | ||||||
| Location | 72 km (45 mi) South of Adelaide via  
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| LGA(s) | District Council of Yankalilla | ||||||
| Region | Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island | ||||||
| State electorate(s) | Finniss | ||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Mayo | ||||||
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Yankalilla is an agriculturally based town situated on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, located 72 km south of the state's capital of Adelaide. The town is nestled in the Bungala River valley, overlooked by the southern Mount Lofty Ranges and acts as a service centre for the surrounding agricultural district.
In the early stages of the colonisation of the state, Yankalilla was a highly important location, but its close proximity to Adelaide and the advent of fast transport has greatly diminished this position.
The Yankalilla area was originally inhabited by the indigenous Ramindjeri people, who occupied an area of land stretching from Cape Jervis to the top of Gulf St Vincent. The Kaurna occasionally met with the Ramindjeri people from the Encounter Bay and Fleurieu Peninsula for trade and exchange. Aboriginal myth credits the formation of the land forms of the Fleurieu Peninsula to the travels of Tjilbruke as he grieved carrying the body of his nephew from the Sturt River to Cape Jervis.
Evidence of Megafauna, including bones attributed to Diprotodon, Maesopus (a giant kangaroo) and Thylacoleo (a marsupial lion) were discovered in the 1890s in a swamp near Yankalilla and conjecture surrounds the possibility that the animals were hunted by the Ramindjerl people.
The Yankalilla district has European history dating back to the first settlement in South Australia, with coastal areas colonised in the late 1830s. In 1938 over 5,400 acres (22 km2) of land around Yankalilla was surveyed for sheep and dairy activities, but the current location of the town came into being four years later.
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