Cygnet River is a locality on

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in the Australian state of

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, about south-west of the state capital of

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and about from the municipal seat of Kingscote. Its boundaries were created in 2002 in respect to “the long established name” which is reported to be derived from the

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located within its boundaries. Cygnet River is located within the federal

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, the state

electoral district of Mawson Mawson is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the entirety of Kangaroo Island, and parts of the local government areas of Alexandrina Council, the City of Onkaparinga, and the District Counc ...

and the local government area of the

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Land use

The major land use within the locality is

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. The locality also includes the

Kingscote Airport Kingscote Airport is located southwest of Kingscote, South Australia, the main town on Kangaroo Island, in the locality of Cygnet River. The airport is the sole airport for Kangaroo Island. The airport is served by regular public transport a ...

and the Cygnet Estuary Conservation Park. Cygnet River contains the following places listed on the

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: * Farm and Eucalyptus Oil Distillery Ruins, Duck Lagoon * Dwelling & Eucalyptus Oil Distillery Ruins (Cygnet River)

River

The locality of Cygnet River is named for the watercourse also named Cygnet River. It is the longest river on Kangaroo Island. They are named after '' Cygnet'', which was the fifth ship to arrive in South Australia in 1836. The river empties via a

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on the western shore of Western Cove, part of Nepean Bay. It had previously been named the Morgan River after Robert Clark Morgan, the captain of ''

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'', another of the ships in the

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Land use

River

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