Places Home > All Places > Services > SA > Kangaroo Island

Penneshaw Historic Town Well - SA

Penneshaw Historic Town Well

Water Tank,Tap

Position

DEG: -35.72131 137.944107

DMS: 35º 43' 16.71" S 137º 56' 38.79" E

UTM: 53 H 6042965mN 766313mE

Altitude: 12m

Address & Contact

LOT 122 Frenchmans Terrace
Penneshaw SA 5222

Phone: N/A

Email: N/A

Web: N/A

Information

A 2.4 metre deep fresh water well was dug on the site in 1880. It was lined with whale bones and old ship timbers, and equipped with a whip to raise water to a trough made from a burnt out gum log or a whaling trypot. The well was quite an upgrade from the previous harvesting of water by sinking casts into the places where water oozed out of the rocks.
In 1926 the Dudley Council relined the well with timber and installed a windmill and a galvanised iron trough to water the local stock. Water was pumped to the local hotel and boarding house until the early 1960’s. Water was as important for their much valued livestock as it was for early settlers.

PlaceID	108269

Map

Working on it...

Get Traveller App Get the ExplorOz Traveller App to download all ExplorOz Places for navigational use on your tablet, phone, iPad or laptop.

Download Place

Use this download for GPX, Hema Navigator and OziExplorer. Geo data only no map included.

TrekNotes Near This Place (1)

Fleurieu

Nearby Places (30)

Wildflowers

Weather

Closest Weather Station

Cape Willoughby at 02/02:00am CST

Distance from Penneshaw Historic Town Well 21.7km SE

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
15.3°C	11.6°C	72%	10.3°C	1031.2hPa	0.0mm	NE	20km/hr 11knots	26km/hr 14knots

Closest Climatic Station

Cape Willoughby

Distance from Penneshaw Historic Town Well 21.7km SE

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	21.6	21.8	20.8	19.1	16.9	14.9	14.2	14.5	15.9	17.6	19.1	20.6
Mean Min. °C	15.8	16.4	15.6	14.2	12.5	10.8	9.8	9.6	10.3	11.4	13.0	14.4
Mean Rain mm	18.3	18.0	21.5	39.5	61.6	75.2	81.5	73.9	56.2	41.9	28.3	23.0