Kappawanta

Kappawanta
South Australia
Kappawanta is located in South Australia
Kappawanta
Kappawanta
Coordinates33°39′53″S 135°16′48″E / 33.66474°S 135.28009°E / -33.66474; 135.28009 (Kappawanta)
Population0 (SAL 2021)[1]
EstablishedBefore 1862
Postcode(s)5670
Location
LGA(s)District Council of Elliston
State electorate(s)Flinders
Federal division(s)Grey
Localities around Kappawanta:
Mount Joy Coolillie Polda
Bramfield Kappawanta Lock, Murdinga
Sheringa Tooligie
Footnotes[2]

Kappawanta (also known as Kappawanta Station) is both a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station and a gazetted bounded locality in South Australia.

It is situated approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) east of Elliston and 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula near Lake Newland.[3] The eastern part of Kappawanta includes most of the Bascombe Well Conservation Park.[2]

In 1862 Kappawanta was owned by Thomas Horn and Edward Kent when they dissolved their partnership.[4] In 1863 the station was stocked with 5,345 sheep.[5]

In 1888 the 102-square-mile (264 km2) property that had an estimated £3,182 worth of improvements was placed on the market for auction.[6] The following year all the station stock and plant was sold off and the property was effectively abandoned.[7]

Messrs R Myers and Son, who had acquired the property some time prior to 1893,[8] placed the property up for auction in 1896. At this time Kappawanta occupied an area of 102 square miles (260 km2) and was stocked with 6,200 sheep, 15 cattle and 5 horses and had been divided into 18 paddocks.[9] By 1898 the property was owned by Edward Morris,[10] who acquired it after winning the lottery. Morris remained on the property routinely producing between 90 and 160 bales of wool each year until he died after a brief illness at age 56 in 1908.[11]

Elizabeth Morris continued to run the property, with her sons eventually taking over management.[12] In 1932 large areas of Kappawanta and neighbouring properties Hillside and Portanna, were all swept by bushfires that started from lightning strikes.[13] Severe storms hit the area in 1942, with the homestead being unroofed and many windmills being blown over.[14]

George and Edward Morris owned the station until 1948,[15] when they sold[16] it to R. Sheehan.[17]

The boundaries of the locality of Kappawanta were formalised in November 1999 for the long established local name. It includes the cadastral hundreds of Kappawanta, Blesing and Hudd, and sections of the hundreds of Barwell, Cowan and Tinline.[2]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Kappawanta (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c "Search result(s) for Kappawanta, LOCB". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Round the town". The Mail. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 23 June 1928. p. 2. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Advertising". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 22 October 1862. p. 1. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Central Road Board". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 18 November 1863. p. 3. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Auction sale of Pastoral leases". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 21 December 1888. p. 6. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Elliston December 19". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 27 December 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  8. ^ "Wool Sales". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 21 December 1893. p. 4. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Advertising". The Chronicle. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 11 April 1896. p. 1. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  10. ^ "The wool sales". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 13 December 1898. p. 7. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  11. ^ "Trade of Port Pirie". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 3 March 1908. p. 8. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  12. ^ "Dramatic SOS for big bushfires". The Mail. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 17 December 1932. p. 1. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  13. ^ "Bush fires in S.A." Daily Advertiser. Wagga Wagga, New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 19 December 1932. p. 1. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  14. ^ "Recent devastating storm". Port Lincoln Times. South Australia: National Library of Australia. 15 January 1942. p. 9. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  15. ^ "Advertising". Port Lincoln Times. South Australia: National Library of Australia. 25 March 1948. p. 13. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  16. ^ "The Late Mr. George Morris". Port Lincoln Times. South Australia: National Library of Australia. 9 December 1954. p. 3. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  17. ^ "Advertising". Port Lincoln Times. South Australia: National Library of Australia. 16 September 1948. p. 16. Retrieved 27 July 2014.