# Kappawanta

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**Kappawanta** (also known as **Kappawanta Station**) is both a pastoral lease that operates as a [sheep station](/source/Sheep_station) and a gazetted bounded [locality](/source/Suburbs_and_localities_(Australia)) in [South Australia](/source/South_Australia).

It is situated approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) east of [Elliston](/source/Elliston,_South_Australia) and 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of [Wudinna](/source/Wudinna,_South_Australia) on the [Eyre Peninsula](/source/Eyre_Peninsula) near [Lake Newland](/source/Lake_Newland).[1] The eastern part of Kappawanta includes most of the [Bascombe Well Conservation Park](/source/Bascombe_Well_Conservation_Park).[2]

In 1862 Kappawanta was owned by Thomas Horn and Edward Kent when they dissolved their partnership.[3] In 1863 the station was stocked with 5,345 sheep.[4]

In 1888 the 102-square mile (264-square kilometre) property that had an estimated £3,182 worth of improvements was placed on the market for auction.[5] The following year all the station stock and plant was sold off and the property was effectively abandoned.[6]

Messrs R Myers and Son, who had acquired the property some time prior to 1893,[7] placed the property up for auction in 1896. At this time Kappawanta occupied an area of 102 square miles (260 km2) and was stocked with 6,200 sheep, 15 cattle and 5 horses and had been divided into 18 paddocks.[8] By 1898 the property was owned by Edward Morris,[9] who acquired it after winning the [lottery](/source/Lottery). Morris remained on the property routinely producing between 90 and 160 [bales](/source/Wool_bale) of wool each year until he died after a brief illness at age 56 in 1908.[10]

Elizabeth Morris continued to run the property, with her sons eventually taking over management.[11] In 1932 large areas of Kappawanta and neighbouring properties Hillside and Portanna, were all swept by bushfires that started from [lightning](/source/Lightning) strikes.[12] Severe storms hit the area in 1942, with the [homestead](/source/Homestead_(buildings)) being unroofed and many windmills being blown over.[13]

George and Edward Morris owned the station until 1948,[14] when they sold[15] it to R. Sheehan.[16]

The boundaries of the locality of Kappawanta were formalised in November 1999 for the long established local name. It includes the cadastral hundreds of [Kappawanta](/source/Hundred_of_Kappawanta), [Blesing](/source/Hundred_of_Blesing) and [Hudd](/source/Hundred_of_Hudd), and sections of the hundreds of [Barwell](/source/Hundred_of_Barwell), [Cowan](/source/Hundred_of_Cowan) and [Tinline](/source/Hundred_of_Tinline).[2]

## See also

- [List of ranches and stations](/source/List_of_ranches_and_stations)

## References

1. ["Round the town"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58553664). *[The Mail](/source/Sunday_Mail_(Adelaide))*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 23 June 1928. p. 2. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Search result(s) for Kappawanta, LOCB"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190630142042/https://maps.sa.gov.au/SAPPA/). *Property Location Browser*. Government of South Australia. Archived from [the original](https://maps.sa.gov.au/SAPPA/) on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

1. ["Advertising."](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50158026). *[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register)*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 22 October 1862. p. 1. Retrieved 26 July 2014.

1. ["Central Road Board"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50158620). *[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register)*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 18 November 1863. p. 3. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Auction sale of Pastoral leases"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33445985). *[The South Australian Advertiser](/source/The_Advertiser_(Adelaide))*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 21 December 1888. p. 6. Retrieved 26 July 2014.

1. ["Elliston December 19"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47289905). *[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register)*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 27 December 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 26 July 2014.

1. ["Wool Sales"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53631686). *[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register)*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 21 December 1893. p. 4. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Advertising."](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87302113). *[The Chronicle](/source/The_Chronicle_(Adelaide))*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 11 April 1896. p. 1. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["The wool sales"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56546653). *[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register)*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 13 December 1898. p. 7. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Trade of Port Pirie"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56458638). *[The Register](/source/The_Register_(Adelaide))*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 3 March 1908. p. 8. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Dramatic SOS for big bushfires"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59830216). *[The Mail](/source/Sunday_Mail_(Adelaide))*. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 17 December 1932. p. 1. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Bush fires in S.A."](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143054868). *[Daily Advertiser](/source/The_Daily_Advertiser_Wagga_Wagga)*. Wagga Wagga, New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 19 December 1932. p. 1. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Recent devastating storm"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96712700). *[Port Lincoln Times](/source/Port_Lincoln_Times)*. South Australia: National Library of Australia. 15 January 1942. p. 9. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Advertising."](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96776395). *[Port Lincoln Times](/source/Port_Lincoln_Times)*. South Australia: National Library of Australia. 25 March 1948. p. 13. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["The Late Mr. George Morris."](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97179454). *[Port Lincoln Times](/source/Port_Lincoln_Times)*. South Australia: National Library of Australia. 9 December 1954. p. 3. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

1. ["Advertising."](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96775667). *[Port Lincoln Times](/source/Port_Lincoln_Times)*. South Australia: National Library of Australia. 16 September 1948. p. 16. Retrieved 27 July 2014.

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