Myponga, South Australia
Myponga is a settlement in South Australia. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 744 of which 393 lived in its town centre. Myponga is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson, and the local government area of the District Council of Yankalilla.
One of the first pioneer families to settle the area, was the family of Con Polden and Mary Windsor along with their children from Wiltshire in South West England. Myponga began as a settlement as a series of land purchases on section 521 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Myponga in 1858. In 1939, a sub-division was laid out on part of Section 521. Boundaries for the locality were created on 5 August 1999 for the "long established name."
Birth place of Rowan Hundertmark, AFL umpire and Huey Hundertmark song writer. Myponga was also home to the Myponga Open Air Festival where Daddy Cool and Black Sabbath played. It was Black Sabbaths first live performance in Australia. The reported attendance was 15,000 people on the 31st of January, 1971.Weather station
Myponga has been the site of an official weather station since 1914.
