Kappawanta

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Kappawanta

| state = sa

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| established = Before 1862

| postcode = 5670

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| dist1 = 36

| dir1 = east

| location1 = Elliston

| dist2 = 70

| dir2 = south

| location2 = Wudinna

| lga = District Council of Elliston

| stategov = Flinders

| fedgov = Grey

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| coordinates = {{coord|33.66474|S|135.28009|E |type:landmark_region:AU-SA |name=Kappawanta |display=inline,title}}

| near-n = Coolillie

| near-ne = Polda

| near-e = Lock, Murdinga

| near-se = Tooligie

| near-s = Sheringa

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| near-w = Bramfield

| near-nw = Mount Joy

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Kappawanta (also known as Kappawanta Station) is both a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station and a gazetted bounded locality in South Australia.

It is situated approximately {{convert|36|km|mi|0}} east of Elliston and {{convert|70|km|mi|0}} south of Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula near Lake Newland.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58553664 |title=Round the town|newspaper=The Mail |location=Adelaide|date=23 June 1928 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The eastern part of Kappawanta includes most of the Bascombe Well Conservation Park.

In 1862 Kappawanta was owned by Thomas Horn and Edward Kent when they dissolved their partnership.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50158026 |title=Advertising.|newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=22 October 1862 |access-date=26 July 2014 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} In 1863 the station was stocked with 5,345 sheep.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50158620|title=Central Road Board|date=18 November 1863|newspaper=South Australian Register|access-date=27 July 2014|publisher=National Library of Australia|location=Adelaide|page=3}}

In 1888 the {{convert|102|sqmi|km2|0|adj=on}} property that had an estimated £3,182 worth of improvements was placed on the market for auction.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33445985 |title=Auction sale of Pastoral leases |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=21 December 1888 |access-date=26 July 2014 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The following year all the station stock and plant was sold off and the property was effectively abandoned.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47289905 |title=Elliston December 19 |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=27 December 1889 |access-date=26 July 2014 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Messrs R Myers and Son, who had acquired the property some time prior to 1893,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53631686 |title=Wool Sales |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=21 December 1893 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} placed the property up for auction in 1896. At this time Kappawanta occupied an area of {{convert|102|sqmi|km2}} and was stocked with 6,200 sheep, 15 cattle and 5 horses and had been divided into 18 paddocks.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87302113 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=11 April 1896 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} By 1898 the property was owned by Edward Morris,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56546653 |title=The wool sales |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=13 December 1898 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} who acquired it after winning the lottery. Morris remained on the property routinely producing between 90 and 160 bales of wool each year until he died after a brief illness at age 56 in 1908.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56458638 |title=Trade of Port Pirie |newspaper=The Register |location=Adelaide |date=3 March 1908 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Elizabeth Morris continued to run the property, with her sons eventually taking over management.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59830216 |title=Dramatic SOS for big bushfires|newspaper=The Mail |location=Adelaide |date=17 December 1932 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} In 1932 large areas of Kappawanta and neighbouring properties Hillside and Portanna, were all swept by bushfires that started from lightning strikes.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143054868 |title=Bush fires in S.A. |newspaper=Daily Advertiser |location=Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |date=19 December 1932 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Severe storms hit the area in 1942, with the homestead being unroofed and many windmills being blown over.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96712700 |title=Recent devastating storm |newspaper=Port Lincoln Times |location=South Australia |date=15 January 1942 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

George and Edward Morris owned the station until 1948,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96776395 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=Port Lincoln Times |location=South Australia |date=25 March 1948 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} when they sold{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97179454 |title=The Late Mr. George Morris. |newspaper=Port Lincoln Times |location=South Australia |date=9 December 1954 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} it to R. Sheehan.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96775667 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=Port Lincoln Times |location=South Australia |date=16 September 1948 |access-date=27 July 2014 |page=16 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

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, Blesing and Hudd, and sections of the hundreds of Barwell, Cowan and Tinline.{{cite web|url=https://maps.sa.gov.au/SAPPA/|title=Search result(s) for Kappawanta, LOCB|work=Property Location Browser|publisher=Government of South Australia|access-date=17 February 2016|archive-date=30 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630142042/https://maps.sa.gov.au/SAPPA/|url-status=dead}}