Stansbury, South Australia

A popular holiday destination with scenic views over Gulf St Vincent, Stansbury is situated on the lower east coast of Yorke Peninsula.
Location: 213 km west of Adelaide; 17 km south of Port Vincent ; 21 km north east of Yorketown.
Origin of name: originally known as Oyster Bay as it once had the most productive oyster beds in South Australia. The Governor Sir Anthony Musgrave renamed the town 'Stansbury' after a 'Mr Stansbury' who was a friend of his about whom very little is known.
Brief history: first inhabited by the Naranga Aborigines of whom it is estimated that there numbered about 500 of them in the 1840s but this had reduced to a mere 40 by 1880. Alfred Weaver, who brought 7,000 sheep, was the first white settler. Weaver built a shearing shed where Stansbury now stands. Stansbury became a ketch port through which grain was shipped across the Gulf to Port Adelaide from the Stansbury jetty, built in 1905. By 1910 Gulf trips to Stansbury were scheduled twice weekly. The ships carried passengers and mail as well as general goods. By 1914, limestone from the cliffs on the shore end of the new jetty was being shipped to the Birkenhead works of the Adelaide Cement Company. The jetty ceased trade in the 1960s.
Natural features: Gulf St. Vincent; Oyster Bay; Oyster Point; Lake Sundown; Wool Bay.
Built features: Klein Point limestone quarry, cement works and ship loading facilities.
Heritage features: Dalrymple House (1878); Stansbury Museum (Dalrymple House, completed in 1878 as the town's school house); Police Station (1870s); Stansbury Jetty (1905); Wool Bay Lime Kiln and jetty (1900-1910)