Penneshaw, South Australia

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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.^[1]

South Australia's only desalination plant was establshed at Penneshaw in the 1990's, to supplement the town's limited dam water supply.

Contents 1 Things to do & see 2 Politics 3 References 4 External links

[edit] 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 .

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

1. ^ Rodney Cockburn (1908) What's in a name? Nomenclature of South Australia: Fergusson Publications ISBN 0959 2519 1 X

[edit] External links

• Penneshaw, South Australia is at coordinates 35°43′06″S 137°56′25″E / -35.718414, 137.940369 (Penneshaw, South Australia)Coordinates: 35°43′06″S 137°56′25″E / -35.718414, 137.940369 (Penneshaw, South Australia)
• Kangaroo Island
• Penneshaw Maritime and Folk Museum