page_title: Boston Island
section_title: Mysterious object
hierarchical_section_title: Boston Island / Mysterious object
caption_attribution_description: English: Men shifting a beacon at Point Fanny on Boston Island, South Australia - State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/1/93
context_page_description: Boston Island is a 960-hectare privately owned island in Boston Bay, Spencer Gulf, South Australia. It has been primarily used for grazing sheep and was also once the location of a proposed township called Kerrillyilla at the southern end of the island. In 2009, the island was rezoned to allow for future residential and tourism development. As of 2009, it is owned by the former mayor of Port Lincoln, Peter Davis. Davis' development plans include up to 1,000 residential allotments, three tourism developments and an inland marina. Prior to rezoning, there had been little interest expressed in the development plan, despite the then mayor's enthusiasm.
context_section_description: On September 8 2014 the Department of Defence investigated a suspected explosive mine located off the east coast of Boston Island. A public exclusion zone was established and a team of Navy clearance divers was deployed to identify the object, defuse it if armed and arrange for its safe disposal. Specialists of the Australian Navy did not find a sea mine.
caption: Men shifting a beacon at Point Fanny on Boston Island, 25 August 1905 - State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/1/93
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