Sheringa is a coastal locality on the western side of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia on the Great Australian Bight.

[4] In August 1843, Joseph Cummings, aged 16, born in England, and Samuel Harris, aged 14, born in the United States, became only the second westerners to trek through the Eyre Peninsula, following in explorer Edward John Eyre's footsteps, and using a coastal map prepared by Matthew Flinders from his circumnavigation of Australia in 1802.

They had left the Fowlers Bay whaling station to walk to civilisation, because of the torrid conditions in which they found themselves.

A local magistrate heard their story, and freed them on the condition that they guided a survey party to the region of good farming land they described, at what became Sheringa.

[8] In 1898, the town consisted "...of a temperance hotel, a general store, and blacksmith's shop under one roof, and a public building, which is used as a Church, a school, and a dancing-room.