Cleve

Cleve ( 33°42′S, 136°29′E) is a town on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It is 226 km southwest of Port Augusta and 143 km north of Port Lincoln. The first European settlers in the area were the McKechnie brothers in 1853. The first European woman arrived in 1862. The town was laid out in 1879 in a square grid surrounded by parklands, imitating Adelaide. It was named after Cleve House, the country seat of the Snow family, cousins of Sir William Jervois, the Governor of South Australia at the time.