Climate
Port Lincoln doesn't get as warm as you may expect during summer, with averages remaining lower than Adelaide, and more northern towns.
Geography
Port Lincoln today is a town of around 15,000 people, it has a foreshore area, marina district, and is close to the Lincoln National Park. Although tourism is important to the area, this is a working city, and you are just as likely to see trawlers in the marina as you are luxury yachts or tourist charters. While swimming at the foreshore jetty, you can see the large grain silos and conveyors load grain ships at speed.
History
Visited and named by Matthew Flinders in 1802, after his home of Lincolnshire, Port Lincoln is yet another Australian town that remembers this explorer. Flinders was looking for fresh water during his visit, which lasted several weeks. He eventually located some, which enabled him to continue his voyage into the Spencer Gulf.
He lost eight of his crew in a rowing boat while going ashore here. The boat was found but the bodies of the crew never were. The cape at the tip of Lincoln National Park is called Cape Catastrophe after the event, and the surrounding islands named after each of the lost crewmen.