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7 unusual facts about Great Australian Bight


Australian Survivor

It was set at Whaler's Way, an Eyre Peninsula coastal nature reserve in Port Lincoln, South Australia in the Great Australian Bight, where numerous ships had sunk off the coast in the past.

Carpobrotus virescens

Endemic to Western Australia, C. virescens occurs on coastal limestone cliffs and dunes from the western edge of the Great Australian Bight, west and north almost to Shark Bay.

Dermomurex howletti

This marine species occurs on the continental shell off southwest Australia and in the Great Australian Bight.

Eucla National Park

The southern edge of the park borders a section of the Great Australian Bight.

Great Australian Bight

The Eyre Highway passes close to the cliffs of the Bight between the Head of the Bight and Eucla.

The Great Australian Bight was first encountered by European explorers in 1627, when a Dutch navigator, François Thijssen, sailed along its western margins.

Rock cod

The rock cod (Lotella rhacina) is a temperate fish found off the coasts of southeastern Australia, Tasmania, the Great Australian Bight and northwards up the south western Australia coasts.


South Australian wine

Located in south central Australia, South Australia is bordered by the four other mainland states, (Western Australia to the west, Queensland to the north east, New South Wales to the east, Victoria to the south east), the Northern Territory to the north, and the Great Australian Bight forms the region's southern coastline.


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