Klein Point is a

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in the

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located about south of Stansbury in the locality of

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. It is the site of a

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facility established to handle shipments of

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for

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. The port is managed by

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. Prior to 1965 it was known as Farquhar Jetty.

History

The jetty was built in 1920 by the South Australian Harbors Board on a lease back agreement. It was the first reinforced concrete piled jetty in South Australia, measuring long with a depth of at low water. It was widened to 1927, and altered again in 1953. In 1965 a T section was added to improved loading facilities. It now measures long with a depth of .

Beaches

Beaches lie on either side of Klein Point, with the mine operations, stockpile, breakwater and jetty located between the two small beaches. The northern beach is 100 m long and hemmed in between the bluffs and the jetty seawall and backed by the mine operations. Both beaches are unsuitable for recreational activities due to access difficulties and the mining operations.

Limestone

About of limestone are shipped across

Gulf St Vincent Gulf St Vincent, sometimes referred to as St Vincent Gulf, St Vincent's Gulf or Gulf of St Vincent, is the eastern of two large inlets of water on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, the other being the larger Sp ...

each year. Currently ''Accolade II'' is used to ship the limestone across the gulf to the Port Adelaide terminal.

References

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