Sapphiretown, South Australia

Sapphiretown is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island overlooking Nepean Bay about 121 kilometres (75 miles) south of the state capital of Adelaide and about 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) south-west of Penneshaw.[2][3]

Sapphiretown South Australia
Sapphiretown
Coordinates	35.79118694°S 137.78309723°E / -35.79118694; 137.78309723
Population	319 (shared with other localities in the “State Suburb of Island Beach”) (2011 census)[1][lower-alpha 1]
Established	1878[2]
Postcode(s)	5222[3]
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	121 km (75 mi) south of Adelaide 16 km (10 mi) southwest of Penneshaw
LGA(s)	Kangaroo Island Council[2]
Region	Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island[4]
County	Carnarvon[2]
State electorate(s)	Mawson [5]
Federal Division(s)	Mayo[6]
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 19.1 °C ^66 °F 11.6 °C ^53 °F 488.9 mm ^19.2 in
Suburbs around Sapphiretown: Nepean Bay Nepean Bay Nepean Bay Nepean Bay Sapphiretown Island Beach Pelican Lagoon Pelican Lagoon Island Beach
Footnotes	Coordinates[2] Locations[3] Climate[7] Adjoining localities[2]

The locality was originally declared as a government town in January 1878 by Sir William Jervois, the tenth governor of South Australia for a site surveyed in March 1877. The locality's boundaries which were created in March 2002 include the former government town of Sapphiretown. The name is derived from HMS Sapphire, a sloop, which conveyed Jervois to South Australia in October 1877 to take up his appointment as Governor of South Australia.[2][8][9]

As of 2014, Sapphiretown consisted of land at the western end of Dudley Peninsula and which concludes as a spit known as Strawbridge Point at its north-western extremity and which is bounded to the north by Eastern Cove in Nepean Bay and by the body of water known as American River to the west. The locality is zoned for residential use exclusively for “detached dwellings” and “tourist accommodation.”[2][10]

Sapphiretown is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Mawson and the local government area of the Kangaroo Island Council.[2][5][6]

See also

• Sapphire (disambiguation)

References

Notes

1. For the 2011 census, the State Suburb of Island Beach covered the full extent of the Dudley Peninsula with the exception of Penneshaw - refer Dudley Peninsula#Demographics for more information

Citations

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Island Beach". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
2. "Search result for "Sapphiretown (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0059861) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Government Towns"". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
3. "Postcode for Sapphiretown, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
4. "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
5. Mawson (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
6. "Federal electoral division of Mayo, boundary gazetted 16 December 2011" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
7. "Monthly climate statistics: Summary statistics KINGSCOTE (nearest station)". Commonwealth of Australia , Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
8. "ARRIVAL OF THE GOVERNOR". South Australian Register. XLII (9640). South Australia. 6 October 1877. p. 2 (Supplement to the South Australian Register.). Retrieved 1 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
9. Warner, J. H. B. (17 January 1878). "Notices under the Waste Lands Alienation Act 1872" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 77. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
10. "Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council, Consolidated – 20 February 2014" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 128, 287 and 300. Retrieved 8 March 2016.