Fides Bluff

Fides Bluff
South Australia
Fides Bluff is located in South Australia
Fides Bluff
Fides Bluff
Coordinates35°41′49″S 136°50′18″E / 35.69694°S 136.83833°E / -35.69694; 136.83833
Location70 km (43 mi) west of Kingscote

Fides Bluff is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Kangaroo Island in the gazetted locality of De Mole River about 70 kilometres (43 miles) west of the municipal seat of Kingscote.[1]

It was named by the Government of South Australia on 23 October 2003 to commemorate the loss of the Finnish barque Fides which was wrecked on the nearby coastline on 22 May 1860 with the loss of her captain and 10 of her 14 crew. A plaque was unveiled at Fides Bluff by Mike Rann, the Premier of South Australia, and Anneli Puura-Märkälä, the Finnish Ambassador to Australia on 7 December 2003 to commemorate the naming of the headland.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Search result for "Fides Bluff (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0064631) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Geographical Names Act 1991 - Notice to Assign a Name to a Place" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. The Government of South Australia (GSA): 3860. 23 October 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 April 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. ^ Chapman, Gifford D. (2007), Kangaroo Island shipwrecks : an account of the ships and cutters wrecked around Kangaroo Island, Gifford Chapman, pp. 25 & 30, ISBN 978-0-646-47779-4
  4. ^ "Report to Parliament on the Planning Strategy For South Australia 2003 - 2004" (PDF). Planning SA. September 2004. p. 47. Retrieved 12 February 2015.


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