Sheringa, South Australia

Sheringa
South Australia
Sheringa
Coordinates 33°50′53″S 135°13′58″E / 33.84807°S 135.23285°E / -33.84807; 135.23285Coordinates: 33°50′53″S 135°13′58″E / 33.84807°S 135.23285°E / -33.84807; 135.23285
Postcode(s) 5607
Location 113 km (70 mi) northwest of Port Lincoln
LGA(s) District Council of Elliston
State electorate(s) Flinders
Federal Division(s) Grey
Localities around Sheringa:
Bramfield Kappawanta Kappawanta
Great Australian Bight Sheringa Tooligie
Great Australian Bight Kiana Kiana

Sheringa is a coastal locality in South Australia on the Great Australian Bight.[1]

The Flinders Highway runs through Sheringa.[1] The Sheringa Roadhouse is located on the highway, containing a shop, restaurant and caravan and cabin accommodation.[2] Surf Life Saving Australia describes Sheringa Beach as "a relatively popular spot for sightseers, while the local surfers and fishers use the beach".[3]

The town of Sheringa was surveyed in October 1882. It was initially proclaimed as Holsworthy on 19 April 1883, then revoked and proclaimed as Sheringa on 23 August 1883. Its name is derived from Tjeiringa, a local Aboriginal name for a yam-like root that grew in the area.[4] The former Sheringa Post Office opened on 1 September 1891 and closed on 28 September 1984.[5]

The Wesleyan Methodist church granted permission to construct a church building at Sheringa at its district meeting in 1886.[6] In 1898, the town consisted "...of a temperance hotel, a general store, and blacksmith's shop under one roof, and a public building, which is used as a Church, a school, and a dancing-room."[7] St. John's Anglican Church opened in 1910.[8]

The historic Round Lake Washing Pool, a former sheep wash located off the Sheringa Beach Road, is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.[9] Washing pools were used before 1870 to wash sheep prior to shearing. The Round Lake wash pond was built in the 1840s and used by several adjacent sheep runs to clean the sheep before shearing. After about 1870, fleece did not need to be cleaned by the farmers before sale, as manufacturers could produce lanolin as a by-product of cleaning the fleece themselves.[10]

"Nowhere Else", a former pastoral property that has attracted attention for its unusual name, and which remains on local road signs, lies within the modern locality of Sheringa.[11][12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sheringa SA 5607". Google Maps. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Sheringa Roadhouse". Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Sheringa Beach". Beachsafe. Surf Life Saving Australia. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Placename Details: Sheringa (LOCB)". Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. 31 March 2010. SA0061410. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Sheringa". Post Office Finder. Premier Postal. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "WESLEYAN DISTRICT MEETING.". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 25 October 1886. p. 7. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "A TRIP TO THE WEST COAST.". South Australian Register. Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 24 December 1898. p. 5. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "OPENING OF NEW CHURCH AT SHERINGA.". Australian Christian Commonwealth (SA : 1901 - 1940). SA: National Library of Australia. 8 July 1910. p. 11. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Round Lake Washing Pool". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  10. ↑ Patricia Sumerling, Heritage of Eyre Peninsula: a short history, Professional Historians Association (SA), p. 4, retrieved 14 February 2016
  11. ↑ "Nowhere Else a steal for tourists". ABC.news.com. Australian Broadcast Commission. 29 June 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  12. ↑ 10 most ridiculous Australian place names .

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