Carpenter Rocks is a town and locality located 35 kilometres (22 mi) south-west of Mount Gambier in the south-east of South Australia.

The area faces the Southern Ocean and is renowned for its rugged coastline which provides exceptional fishing and diving locations.

[6] Lieutenant James Grant, when on board HMS Lady Nelson, was the first known British person to view land known today as south-eastern South Australia.

On 4 April 1802, the French explorer Nicholas Baudin aboard the ship Geographe noticed the area and made the observation: Along the beach we could make out a continuous line of rocks which stretched a little way out to sea and over which the breakers pounded with extraordinary force.

Cape Banks lighthouse is located 4 kilometres (2 mi) from the township and it is near here on 5 August 1859 SS Admella was wrecked on a reef with the loss of 89 lives.