Claim: Cape Wiles in South Australia on Sleaford Bay (the site of a proposed $80 million seawater desalination plant) was named after botanist, James Wiles, who was First Gardener on the Second Breadfruit Voyage under William Bligh before becoming a gardener and eventually owner of two coffee plantations.
Evidence: Cape Wiles is a headland located on the west side of the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 27 kilometres (17 miles) south west of the city of Port Lincoln. The cape also is the western extremity of Sleaford Bay. In 2018, a proposal to construct a 3 gigalitre per year seawater desalination plant at Sleaford Bay was announced. Land was purchased in July and the project is expected to cost $80 million to complete. Cape Wiles was named by Matthew Flinders on 19 February 1802 after James Wiles, a botanist whom he described as "a worthy friend at Liguanea, in Jamaica", along with the nearby Liguanea Island. Wiles had been a friend of Joseph Banks then became First Gardener on the Second Breadfruit Voyage (1791–1793) under William Bligh and Flinders had been a midshipman on the same voyage. He left the ship in Jamaica and became gardener at a public nursery, then Island Botanist. He later owned two coffee plantations.