{{About|the bay in South Australia|the associated locality|D'Estrees Bay, South Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox body of water | name = | image = D'Estrees Bay beach - panoramio.jpg | caption = | pushpin_map = Australia South Australia | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_label_position = bottom | pushpin_map_caption = Location in [[South Australia]] | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = [[Kangaroo Island]], [[South Australia]] | coords = {{coord|-35.91656209|137.65046840|type:waterbody_region:AU_region:AU-SA|format=dms |display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = <ref name=PLB>{{cite web |title=Search result for "D'Estrees Bay (Bay)" (Record no SA0017650) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and "Place names (gazetteer)" |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser |publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=1 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archive-date=12 October 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> | type = [[Bay]] | inflow = | outflow = | catchment = | basin_countries = [[Australia]] | length = {{convert|14|km|abbr=on}}<ref name=chart11/> | width = | area = | depth = | max-depth = {{convert|27|m|abbr=on}}<ref name=chart11>{{Citation | author1=South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors (DMH)| title=The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs | publication-date=1985 | publisher=Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia | pages=Chart11|isbn=978-0-7243-7603-2}}</ref> | volume = | residence_time = | salinity = | shore = | temperature_high = | temperature_low = | frozen = | islands = | trenches = | benches = | cities = [[Haines, South Australia|Haines]]<br/>[[D'Estrees Bay, South Australia|D'Estrees Bay]]<ref name=PLB/> }} '''D'Estrees Bay''' ({{langx|fr|'''Baie d'Estrées'''}}) is a [[bay]] in the Australian state of [[South Australia]] located on the southern coast of [[Kangaroo Island]] about {{convert|39|km|abbr=off}} south of [[Kingscote, South Australia|Kingscote]], the island's principal centre.
D'Estrees Bay was named in 1803 by [[François Péron|Péron]] and [[Louis de Freycinet|Freycinet]] of the [[Baudin expedition to Australia]] after [[Victor-Marie d'Estrées]], a [[Marshal of France]].<ref name=PLB/><ref name= page119>{{cite web|last=Robinson|first=A. C.|title=South Australia's offshore islands|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/5a7dbb25-70b9-4ceb-bbfd-a25800961994/offshore-islands-gen.pdf|publisher=Australian Heritage Commission|access-date=13 December 2013|author2=Canty, P. |author3=Mooney, T. |author4=Rudduck, P.|pages=119|year=1996}}</ref>
The bay extends from Point Tinline in the south west to Point Reynolds in the north east,<ref name=chart11/> with the beach being sandy and accessible for most of the bay's length.
The western side of the bay contains a settlement consisting of “single detached dwellings and recreation facilities for holiday makers and permanent residents.”<ref name=DP/>
The land at the bay's south west end is currently part of the [[Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park]].<ref name =DP>{{cite web|title=Development Plan, Kangaroo Island Council, Consolidated – 20 February 2014 |url=http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/249975/Kangaroo_Island_Council_Development_Plan.pdf |publisher=[[Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure]] |access-date=8 March 2016| pages=127 and 329–333}}</ref>
==Shipwrecks== On the night of 25 November 1853 the steamer ''[[Osmanli (ship)|Osmanli]]'', Captain Corbett, returning to Adelaide from Melbourne, struck a reef and sank in D'Estrees Bay. Some sixty persons were aboard, and all made it safely to shore in the boats, but passenger [[Morris Lyon Marks|Morris Marks]] lost a quantity of gold.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48550316 |title=Wreck of the Osmanli Steamer in D'Estrees Bay, Kangaroo Island |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |location=South Australia |date=30 November 1853 |access-date=20 April 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove }}</ref>
==See also== *[[Estrées (disambiguation)]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Kangaroo Island}} {{Bays of South Australia |state=collapsed}} {{AusplacesnamedbyFrench |state=autocollapse}}
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