__NOTOC__ Sapphiretown is a locality in the Australian state of

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located on the north coast of

Dudley Peninsula Dudley Peninsula (known as Presquila Gallissoniere and as the MacDonnell Peninsula from 1857 to 1986) is the peninsula forming the eastern end of Kangaroo Island in the Australian state of South Australia. It was occupied by Aboriginal Austr ...

Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest ...

overlooking Eastern Cove about south of the state capital of

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and about south-west of

Penneshaw Penneshaw is a township in the Australian state of South Australia located on the northeast coast of the Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island about south of the state capital of Adelaide. It is the island's main ferry port with regular services ...

. 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. The name is derived from HMS ''Sapphire'', a

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, which conveyed Jervois to South Australia in October 1877 to take up his appointment as Governor of South Australia. As of 2014, Sapphiretown consisted of land at the western end of Dudley Peninsula and which concludes as a spit known as Strawbridge Point at its north-western extremity and which is bounded to the north by Eastern Cove in Nepean Bay and by the body of water known as American River to the west. The locality is zoned for residential use exclusively for “detached dwellings” and “tourist accommodation.” Sapphiretown is located within the federal

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, the state

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and the local government area of the

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;Notes ;Citations Towns on Kangaroo Island Dudley Peninsula {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub

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