Smoky Bay, South Australia
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Smoky Bay South Australia |
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Location of Smoky Bay
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| Population | 577 (2006 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1913 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5680 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 1 m (3 ft) | ||||||||||||
| Location | 69 km (43 mi) North West of Streaky Bay | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Ceduna | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities | ||||||||||||
Smoky Bay (formerly Wallanippie) is a small coastal village located in South Australia on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula. Previously used as a port, the town is now a residential settlement and popular tourist destination known for its recreational fishing, with a boat ramp and jetty located in the town. At the 2006 census, Smoky Bay had a population of 577.
Smoky Bay's coastline was first sighted and mapped by the British navigator, Matthew Flinders, in 1802, who named it 'Smoky Bay' after the amount of smoke from fires lit by the area's Aboriginal people.
Whalers were the first Europeans to inhabit the coastline near the current site of the town, just north of Pt. Collinson. Recently, dune erosion has uncovered parts of the ruins of their camps, with pieces of whale bone and three one-hundred gallon cooking pots were recovered. The historic Port Collinson Whaling Station remnants are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.
In the early 1860s pastoralists arrived in the district. Former Adelaide civil servant Charles Francis Heath (1832–83) established a sheep grazing property which he named Wallanippie Station after the Aboriginal name of a waterhole near his homestead at the back of Point Brown promontry.
A feud took place in 1865 between two Aboriginal men at Wallanippie Station, resulting in one being speared and the other charged with murder. Heath was required to attend the Supreme Court in Adelaide as a witness. The trial was notable in that it was an instance of British law intervening in traditional Aboriginal law.
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