Adventure Bay is the name of a locality, a township and a geographical feature on the eastern side of Bruny Island, Tasmania. At the 2021 census, Adventure Bay had a population of 218. The first European to sight the bay was explorer Abel Tasman, who sought to anchor his vessel Heemskerck there in 1642. Instead, Heemskerck was driven back offshore by a storm, in token of which Tasman named the place Storm Bay. Captain Tobias Furneaux renamed it in March 1773, in honour of his ship HMS Adventure, which he had anchored in the bay for five days after becoming separated from Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution during Cook's second voyage to the Pacific in search of Terra Australis Incognita.
Population: 218 (2021 census)
Established: 1798
Postcode(s): 7150
Location: 75 km (47 mi) S of Hobart · 44 km (27 mi) S of Kettering · 41 km (25 mi) S of Dennes Point