The Kingston District Council (formerly District Council of Lacepede) is a

local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...

in the

Limestone Coast The Limestone Coast is a name used since the early twenty-first century for a South Australian government region located in the south east of South Australia which immediately adjoins the continental coastline and the Victorian border. The ...

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

established in 1873.

Kingston SE Kingston SE (Kingston South East to distinguish it from Kingston-on-Murray) formerly Kingston is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east coastline on the shores of Lacepede Bay. It is located about ...

is the largest town of the district and also the seat of council. The district is mostly reliant on

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

, particularly cereal crops,

sheep Sheep or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus ''Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticated s ...

and

cattle Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus ''Bos''. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult mal ...

. Cape Jaffa also hosts a

lobster Lobsters are a family (biology), family (Nephropidae, Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs ...

fishing fleet, with other

commercial fishing Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often ...

also providing part of the area's economy.

Tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring (disambiguation), touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tour (disambiguation), tours. Th ...

also plays a minor role, with Kingston SE a minor tourist destination, noted for its ' Big Lobster', with Mount Scott Conservation Park and

Butchers Gap Conservation Park Butcher Gap Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Limestone Coast of South Australia overlooking Lacepede Bay about south of the town of Kingston SE. The conservation park was proclaimed under the ''National Parks and Wildlife A ...

also located in the district.

History

The area was originally settled by the

Ngarrindjeri The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term ''Ngarrindjeri'' means "belo ...

Aborigines, who lived along the Coorong and extended across the Murray River to the present day site of Goolwa. The first European to make contact with this stretch of coastline was the French explorer

Nicolas Baudin Nicolas Thomas Baudin (; 17 February 1754 – 16 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer, most notable for his explorations in Australia and the southern Pacific. Biography Early career Born a comm ...

who discovered Lacepede Bay in 1802. In 1840, the Brigantine '' Maria'' was shipwrecked near Cape Jaffa after leaving

Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the ...

. This reference quite credibly states the bodies were stuffed down

wombat Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials that are native to Australia. They are about in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between . All three of the extant species are members of the family Vombatidae. They are adap ...

holes, where others coyly refer to "shallow graves". It is also one of the few to touch on the contentious possibility of cannibalism. All 25 people aboard were massacred by Aborigines along the Coorong. The town of Kingston was established in 1856, the town being named after the government surveyor, George Strickland Kingston by Governor McDonnell, in 1858 and renamed as Kingston SE in July 1940. The District Council of Lacepede was established on 4 July 1873 to serve the growing area. The name was changed to the present designation on 1 July 2000. Mayor Legoe justified the change at the ceremony, stating; "The decision to change the name of the Council was not a decision to change for the sake of change. It is a decision to change the image and identity of the Council to propel itself into the 21st Century".

Localities

The district council includes the following localities - Avenue Range (part), Blackford,

Cape Jaffa Cape Jaffa is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located at the south end of Lacepede Bay on the state's south east coast about south west of the town centre of Kingston SE. The cape is described as being "a low sandy point" ...

, Coorong,

Keilira ''Keilira'' is a genus of Australian huntsman spiders that was first described by D. B. Hirst in 1989. it contains two species, found in South Australia and Victoria: '' K. sokoli'' and '' K. sparsomaculata''. See also * List of Sparassidae sp ...

, Marcollat, Pinks Beach, Reedy Creek,

Rosetown Rosetown may refer to: Places * Rosetown, South Australia, locality in South Australia *Rosetown, Saskatchewan, town in Saskatchewan, Canada **Rosetown Airport Electoral districts in Saskatchewan * Rosetown (electoral district), former federal e ...

, Sandy Grove, Taratap, Tilley Swamp, Wangolina,

West Range The West Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, Californi ...

and Wyomi.

Councillors

Kingston District Council has a directly-elected mayor.

References

External links

Council pageLGA of South Australia - Kingston DC
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Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, ...

1873 establishments in Australia Limestone Coast