Sapphiretown
- Local Government Area
- Kangaroo Island
- Postcode
- 5222
- Population
- 21
- Area
- 1.02 km²
- Coordinates
- -35.7913, 137.7834
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Sapphiretown
Sapphiretown is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island overlooking Eastern Cove about 121 kilometres (75 miles) south of the state capital of Adelaide and about 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) south-west of Penneshaw. 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.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- American River 2 km
- Island Beach 2 km
- Ballast Head 4 km
- Pelican Lagoon 4 km
- Muston 5 km
- Brown Beach 5 km