Fides Bluff

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = other | name = Fides Bluff | state = SA | image = | caption = | pop = | pop_footnotes = | est = | postcode = | elevation = | elevation_footnotes = | coordinates = {{coord|35|41|49|S|136|50|18|E|display=inline,title}} | dist1 = 70 | dir1 = west | location1 = [[Kingscote, South Australia|Kingscote]] }} '''Fides Bluff''' is a [[headland]] in the Australian state of [[South Australia]] located on the north coast of [[Kangaroo Island]] in the gazetted locality of [[De Mole River, South Australia|De Mole River]] about {{convert|70|km|abbr=off}} west of the municipal seat of [[Kingscote, South Australia|Kingscote]].<ref name=plb>{{cite web |title=Search result for "Fides Bluff (Locality Bounded)" (Record no SA0064631) with the following layers being selected – "Suburbs and Localities" and "Place names (gazetteer)" |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |publisher=Government of South Australia |work=Property Location Browser |accessdate=1 January 2017 |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

It was named by the Government of South Australia on 23 October 2003 to commemorate the loss of the Finnish [[barque]] ''Fides'' which was wrecked on the nearby coastline on 22 May 1860 with the loss of her captain and 10 of her 14 crew. A plaque was unveiled at Fides Bluff by [[Mike Rann]], the [[Premier of South Australia]], and Anneli Puura-Märkälä, the [[Embassy of Finland to Australia|Finnish Ambassador to Australia]] on 7 December 2003 to commemorate the naming of the headland.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Geographical Names Act 1991 - Notice to Assign a Name to a Place |url=http://www.governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/2003/october/2003_101.pdf |journal=The South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=The Government of South Australia (GSA) |date=23 October 2003 |page=3860 |accessdate=12 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406090722/http://www.governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/2003/October/2003_101.pdf |archivedate=6 April 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Chapman, Gifford D. | title=Kangaroo Island shipwrecks : an account of the ships and cutters wrecked around Kangaroo Island | publication-date=2007 | publisher=Gifford Chapman|pages= 25 & 30| isbn=978-0-646-47779-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Report to Parliament on the Planning Strategy For South Australia 2003 - 2004|url=https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/15753/Report_to_Parl_on_Planning_Strategy_2003_2004.pdf|publisher=Planning SA|accessdate=12 February 2015|page=47|date=September 2004}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fides Bluff}} [[Category:Headlands of Kangaroo Island]] [[Category:Investigator Strait]]