Penneshaw, South Australia
- Penneshaw, South Australia
Penneshaw is a town on the northeast coast of Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, and is the island's main ferry port with regular services from Cape Jervis. Penneshaw features a Maritime and Folk Museum, and evening tours to a colony of the Little Penguin, the only species of penguin to breed in Australian waters.
Originally known as Hog Bay, Penneshaw was named after a combination of the names of Dr. F.W. Pennefather, private secretary to Governor Jervois, and Flora Louisa Shaw, a visitor to Government House. [ Rodney Cockburn (1908) "What's in a name? Nomenclature of South Australia": Fergusson Publications ISBN 0959 2519 1 X]
South Australia's only desalination plant was establshed at Penneshaw in the 1990's, to supplement the town's limited dam water supply.
Things to do & see
*Gateway Information Centre
*Christmas Cove
*Hog Bay
*Anglican Church of St Columba The first church established on Kangaroo Island.
*Frenchman's Rock. In 1803 the French explorer Nicolas Baudin anchored in Hog Bay, and one of his crew noted the arrival of the expedition by carving on a rock, which was later removed and is now located in the Gateway Information Centre. A replica now occupies the rock's original location on Penneshaw Beach .
Politics
Penneshaw is in the Kangaroo Island Council local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Finniss and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Mayo.
References
External links
* [http://www.tourkangarooisland.com.au/ Kangaroo Island]
* [http://www.communitywebs.org/PenneshawMaritimeMuseum/ Penneshaw Maritime and Folk Museum]
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