the colonial manager, was so impressed with Wallen's farm that he annexed it for the South Australian Company. A number of shore-based bay whaling stations operated on the coast in the 1840s. These were located at Doyle's Bay, D'Estrees Bay and Hog Bay.

Shipwrecks and lighthouses

Numerous ships have been wrecked on the Kangaroo Island coastline. The earliest was the cutter William (20 tons), which was wrecked while trying to enter Hog Bay

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