Kapunda
Kapunda | |||||||||||||
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Looking towards the Baptist church | |||||||||||||
Kapunda | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 34°20′20″S 138°55′00″E / 34.33889°S 138.91667°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1839 | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 245 m (804 ft) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 2,917 (2016 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5373 | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 21.6 °C (70.9 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 9.8 °C (49.6 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 493.8 mm (19.44 in) | ||||||||||||
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Kapunda is a town on the Light River near the Barossa Valley in South Australia. It was established after a discovery in 1842 of significant copper deposits. The population was 2,917 at the 2016 Australian census.
The southern entrance to the town has been dominated since 1988 by the 8-metre (26 ft) statue of Map Kernow ("the son of Cornwall"), a traditional Cornish miner. The statue was destroyed by a fire in June 2006 but was rebuilt.