Kimba, South Australia
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Kimba (, population 800) is a rural service town on the Eyre Highway at the top of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. There is 7 metre tall statue of a big galah beside the highway marking halfway between the east and west coasts of Australia. The Gawler Ranges are north of the highway near the town.
Explorer Edward John Eyre passed through the area in 1839. The area was first settled in the 1870s, and more intensively for wheat farming from 1908. Kimba has been connected by narrow gauge railway to Port Lincoln since 1913. This is now only used to transport wheat to the port for export.
Kimba is in the District Council of Kimba, the South Australian Legislative Assembly electoral district of Flinders and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Grey.
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