Minlaton is a town in central Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

Minlaton was the hometown of Harry Butler, a World War I flying ace.

His Bristol M1C monoplane has been restored and is preserved in pride of place in a building the centre of the town.

When he flew an air mail run from Adelaide across Gulf St Vincent to Minlaton in 1919, it was the first over-water flight in the Southern Hemisphere.

[4] Minlaton, like most of the Yorke Peninsula, has a dry mediterranean climate bordering on semi-arid.