Nangkita is a rural locality on Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, south of the capital, Adelaide.

Nangkita was founded as a Village Settlement in the 1890s as a commune in a scheme set up by the South Australian government under Part VII of the Crown Lands Amendment Act 1893,[3] intended to mitigate the effects of the depression then affecting the Colony.

The settlement grew a magnificent crop of tobacco, but the potato and onion crops were ravaged by grubs.

[4] The commune closed not long after that.

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