The City of Port Lincoln is a local government area located on the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

[4] It is surrounded on land by the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula, which also has offices in Port Lincoln.

[5][6] The area was discovered and mapped by Matthew Flinders in 1802, who named the body of water Port Lincoln after his home county of Lincolnshire in England.

[7] The first white settlers in the area arrived in 1839, travelling from Port Adelaide on the Abeona.

It gained its present name when it was granted city status on 21 January 1971.