D'Estrees Bay

D'Estrees Bay
D'Estrees Bay Location in South Australia
Location	Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Coordinates	35°56′55″S 137°34′45″E / 35.94861°S 137.57917°E / -35.94861; 137.57917Coordinates: 35°56′55″S 137°34′45″E / 35.94861°S 137.57917°E / -35.94861; 137.57917^[1]
Type	Bay
Basin countries	Australia

Max. length	14 kilometres (8.7 mi)^[2]
Max. depth	27^[2]

D'Estrees Bay is a bay in South Australia located on the southern coast of Kangaroo Island about 39 kilometres (24 mi) south of Kingscote, the Island's main town.

D'Estrees Bay is one of many places on Kangaroo Island named by the French explorer Nicolas Baudin.

The bay extends from Point Tinline in the south west to Point Reynolds in the north east,^[2] with the beach being sandy and accessible for most of the bay's length.

The northern area of the bay has been subdivided into several allotments of 8 hectares (20 acres) each, many with a frontage to the bay, and accessed by a private road (available for public use). There is a small number of permanent and holiday homes in the area, which has no shopping facilities. There is no mains water, and limited mains electricity availability has led to some dwellings being erected with solar generated electricity.

The land at the bay's south west end is currently part of the Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park.

References

↑ "D'Estrees Bay (SA)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
1 2 3 South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors (DMH) (1985), The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs, Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia, pp. Chart11, ISBN 978-0-7243-7603-2

Kangaroo Island

Major townships

Beaches

Coastal features

Protected areas

National parks	Flinders Chase

Conservation parks	Baudin Beatrice Islet Beyeria Busby Islet Cape Gantheaume Cape Willoughby Cygnet Estuary Dudley Kelly Hill Lashmar Lathami Lesueur Mount Taylor Nepean Bay Parndana Pelican Lagoon Seal Bay Seddon Simpson Vivonne

Aquatic reserves	American River Bales Beach Seal Bay

Wilderness Protection Areas	Cape Bouguer Cape Gantheaume Cape Torrens Ravine des Casoars Western River

Islands adjacent to Kangaroo Island coast

Related and uncategorised

Kangaroo Island wine region

Coastal bays and inlets of South Australia

Aldinga Anxious Arno Baird Barker Inlet Coffin D'Estrees Denial Discovery Emu Encounter False Fowlers Guichen Hardwicke Head of the Bight Holdfast Lipson Cove Lacepede Louth Lucky Marion Memory Moonta Nepean Pelican Lagoon Pondalowie Rapid Rivoli Sceale Smoky Stenhouse Stokes Streaky Tumby Venus Vivonne Wool Seal Bay Conservation Park Tourville and Murat Bays Important Bird Area

Category Commons

Australian places named by French explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries

South Australia	Cape Bedout Cape Borda Cape Bouguer Cape Carnot Cape du Couedic Cape Forbin Cape Gantheaume Casuarina Islets (Ilots du Cassuarina) D'Estrees Bay Dorothee Island (Ile Dorothee) Fleurieu Peninsula Jussieu Peninsula Lacepede Bay Maupertuis Bay Fenelon Island Masillon Island Ravine des Casoars Rivoli Bay (Baie de Rivoli) Cape Thevenard Veteran Isles (Ile du Veteran) Vivonne Bay

Western Australia	Cape Clairault Cape Freycinet Cape Mentelle Cape Naturaliste Faure Island Gantheaume Point Geographe Bay Lancelin Island Middle Island (Iles du Milieu) Peron Peninsula Recherche Archipelago (L’Archipel de la Recherche)

Only places with the name still in use in either the original or anglicised version are listed above. Many names have been anglicised; for these the original French name appears in brackets.

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