Wedge Island, Port Lincoln SA 5606

Wedge Island was charted by Captain Matthew Flinders in February 1802 whereby he named it Wedge Island due to its visual shape.
1883 saw the island surveyed into 9 Sections with full occupation of the Island commencing in the early 1890s, the homestead being built in 1893 and the woolshed following in 1894.
The Island was utilised as farming for crops and sheep grazing some of the old implements used for this purpose still remain on the Island as testaments to a bygone era of what must have been incredibly difficult times.
1911 saw the building of the lighthouse, sited some 240 metres above sea level on the south western end of the Island.
1942 The Second World War saw an influx of Royal Australian Air Force personnel onto the Island which was established as a strategic outpost and lookout for enemy ships. Evidence remains of the gun turrets and ammunition bunkers near the lighthouse.
In 1988 the Island was purchased by a development company which subsequently divided the Island into 114 residential allotments in three distinct cluster areas, delegating a large portion of the Island as National Park and Reserves, with the balance being retained as private ownership.
The land area is approximately 1,050 hectares or 2,595 acres and is the largest of the islands in the group known as the Gambier Islands.
Wedge Island offers an amazing contract of coastal scenery, rising from the magnificent northern beach line to the dramatic 240 metre cliffs on the southern shore line. The combination of sandy beaches with aqua clear waters, rugged cliffs, coves and bays provide for spectacular and yet serene coastal beauty that make one feel insignificant in relation to the natural beauty and the amenity of Wedge Island.
Natural wildlife is abundant, both on and off shore, including rock wallabies, bettongs, wombats, seals and a variety of sea eagles and coastal birds.
Though diverse, Wedge Islands fauna does not extend to snakes or poisonous spiders.
The land is only a part of the Wedge Island story: it is the sea which provides the Islands identify and magical essence. The waters around Wedge are unbelievably pure and clear, and they play host to a fantastic profusion of marine life. Among the rocks, reefs and colourful kelp beds you will find enormous crayfish, abalone and squid, huge schools of whiting, a kaleidoscope of dazzling parrot fish, groper, sweep, snapper...