What is Denial Bay?
[[File:Denial Bay Map.png|thumb|220px|Denial Bay Map]] '''Denial Bay''' is the name for both a small bay on the coast of [[South Australia]], and a small fishing town built at the bay. The bay was named by [[explorer]] [[Matthew Flinders]] on 7 February 1802. Flinders had hoped that bay was bigger and would have provided better access into the inland of South Australia.<ref name=sah>{{cite web |url=http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/denialbay.htm |title=Denial Bay, Eyre Peninsula, West Coast, South Australia |work=southaustralianhistory.com.au |year=2010 |access-date=11 May 2011 |archive-date=14 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514005154/http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/denialbay.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> One of the first European settlers was a sheep farmer, William McKenzie, who built a house in the area in 1889.<ref name=sah/> The town was known as Mac's Town, and in 1910 the government officially named it McKenzie.<ref name=sah/> In 1940 it was named Denial Bay.<ref name=sah/> ==References== {{reflist}} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Towns in South Australia]] [[Category:Bays of Australia]] [[Category:1889 establishments in Australia]]