American Beach SA 5222
5 addresses · 1 street
Mayo Electorate › Kangaroo Island LGA › American Beach · 114 km from Adelaide
Getting Around & Local Services
1 beach
1 golf club
1 place to stay
Getting around. Ferry wharf: Penneshaw Terminal, 8 km north-east · Airport: Kingscote Airport, 33.1 km west.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 7.2% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020
Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 7.2% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 14.2% |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,633 bird observations recorded near American Beach — most often seen:
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (133)
- Superb Fairy-wren (83)
- Kangaroo Island Grey Currawong (78)
- Kangaroo Island Superb Fairy-wren (74)
- Little Raven (73)
- Silvereye (61)
- Silver Gull (59)
- Kangaroo Island Red Wattlebird (58)
- South Australian Silvereye (56)
- South Australian Crescent Honeyeater (55)
- Australian Pelican (54)
- Crested Tern (53)
- Giinbaywarraymal (53)
Show all 30 birds recorded near American Beach
- Australian Magpie (52)
- Red Wattlebird (52)
- White-faced Heron (52)
- Pied Cormorant (48)
- West Coast Pacific Gull (48)
- Eastern Hooded Dotterel (46)
- House Sparrow (45)
- Kangaroo Island Brown Thornbill (45)
- Black-faced Cormorant (44)
- Grey Currawong (44)
- Little Pied Cormorant (43)
- New Holland Honeyeater (42)
- Pacific Gull (41)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (36)
- Common Starling (35)
- Eastern Scarlet Robin (35)
- Kangaroo Island Spotted Scrubwren (35)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to American Beach:
- Baudin Beach (1.4 km)
- Dudley West (2.7 km)
- Kangaroo Head (4.6 km)
- Brown Beach (4.9 km)
- Dudley East (6 km)
- Penneshaw (7.5 km)
- Island Beach (7.7 km)
- Sapphiretown (9.2 km)
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Streets
- Hog Bay Road (5)