Duck Ponds is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula in the state's west about 258 kilometres (160 mi) west of the state capital of Adelaide, about 51 kilometres (32 mi) south of the municipal seat of Cummins and about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) west of the city of Port Lincoln.

[1] The Eyre Peninsula Railway, which also passes through Duck Ponds in an alignment similar to the by-pass road, forms part of its southern boundary and hosts two railway stations: Grantham in the south, established as Five Mile Siding about 1942, and Ducks Ponds in the locality's centre, established in 1911.

[8][9] Land use within Duck Ponds principally consists of agricultural activities such as broadacre cropping and grazing.

Land use is subject to statutory control to manage the aquifer system existing within Duck Ponds and adjoining localities.

[10][1] Duck Ponds is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula.