What is Kapunda?
[[File:Former Kapunda convent.JPG|thumb|Old [[convent]] building in Kapunda]] '''Kapunda''' is a town in [[South Australia]], 79 [[km]] north of [[Adelaide]].<ref name=smh>{{cite web |url= http://www.smh.com.au/news/South-Australia/Kapunda/2005/02/17/1108500204320.html |title=Kapunda |first= |last=|work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |year=8 February 2004 |accessdate=18 June 2011}}</ref> First settled in 1842, it is the oldest [[copper]] mining town in Australia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/kapunda.htm |title=Kapunda |first= |last= |work=southaustralianhistory.com.au |year=2010 |accessdate=18 June 2011 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111042/https://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/kapunda.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The name ''Kapunda'' comes from an [[Indigenous Australian|Aboriginal]] words ''cappie oonda'', which meant spring of water.<ref name=smh/> ==References== {{reflist}} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Towns in South Australia]] [[Category:1842 establishments]] [[Category:19th-century establishments in Australia]]