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Eyre Peninsula Description
Half way along the south coast of Australia the Eyre Peninsula projects like a broad triangular spur into the Southern Ocean, separating the Great Australian Bight to the west from Spencer Gulf to the east. At the corners of the triangle are Ceduna in the west, Port Lincoln in the south and Whyalla and Port Augusta in the east. The northern boundary of the peninsula is formed by the Gawler Ranges in the arid north. The east coast, on Spencer Gulf, has safe and sheltered beaches and good fishing waters. The peninsula is named after the explorer John Edward Eyre, who in 1840-1, starting from Adelaide, surveyed the coastal regions on the Great Australian Bight. After traveling north as far as the huge salt lake which bears his name he turned
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Hobbies & Activities category: Agricultural area or museum;  Beach;  Fishing opportunity;  Region with significant interests
Eyre Peninsula Highlights

East Coast

The east coast of Eyre Peninsula features a variety of attractions.

Arno Bay

Arno Bay is a popular little resort.

Cowell

The historic settlement of Cowell (pop. 700) is where Franklin Harbour, a large coastal lagoon, offers safe, sheltered beaches for bathing and fishing. The economy depends on the deposits of jade
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Port Lincoln

Port Lincoln (pop. 12,000) is at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula. It was one of the earliest European-style settlements, established in 1839. Shortage of water and a relatively infertile
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Surroundings

Off the coast of Port Lincoln are a number of attractive little islands, easily reached by boat.

Lincoln National Park

174 sq.km.

Occupying the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula is Lincoln National Park with rugged cliffs, mallee scrub vegetation and many species of birds. Good fishing and swimming.

Tumby Bay

Tumby Bay (pop. 1200) has developed in recent years into a popular holiday resort with a semicircular bay of white sand offering beautiful coastal scenery. The former police station houses a museum
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Whyalla

Whyalla (pop. 26,000) is the second largest town in South Australia, with a deep-water port, and an important center of heavy industry processing iron ore from Iron Knob and Iron Baron in the
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West Coast

The west coast of Eyre Peninsula features a variety of attractions.

Ceduna

The little town of Ceduna (pop. 3000) is the last settlement of any size before the crossing of the inhospitable Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. The port at Thevenard, 3km east, ships grain,
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Surroundings

The area around Ceduna features a variety of attractions.

McDonald

The town of McDonald, a settlement founded in the 1840s, now lies in ruins. Day trips to beaches in Decres Bay, Laura Bay and Davenport Creek.

Overseas Telecommunications Earth Station (closed)

The Overseas Telecommunications Earth Station links Australia with countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.

THIS ATTRACTION IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED.

Yumbarra Conservation Park

The Yumbarra Conservation Park features bizarrely shaped granite crags rising out of low sandy hills.

Coffin Bay National Park

300 sq.km.

On a spur of land reaching out into the Great Australian Bight on the southwestern coast of the Eyre Peninsula is Coffin Bay National Park, a region of granite and limestone crags, with
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Coffin Bay

Picturesquely situated on a long sheltered inlet near the southwestern tip of the Eyre Peninsula is the little fishing village of Coffin Bay (pop. 340), named by Matthew Flinders after his friend Isaac Coffin.

Elliston

In Waterloo Bay on the west coast of the peninsula is the popular holiday resort of Elliston (hotels, motels, holiday apartments, caravan/camping parks), with safe bathing beaches and beautiful
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Flinders Island

Flinders Island is in the Great Australian Bight and is good for diving and water sports.

Nullarbor National Park

2300 sq.km

This vast monotonous plain with no trees (as its name indicates, from Latin nullus arbor) is covered only with low-growing salt scrub. It is only after abundant winter rains that
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Point Labatt

Point Labatt is a nature reserve with a large colony of sea lions.

Streaky Bay

The little resort and fishing port of Streaky Bay (pop. 1000) has good sandy bays, little inlets and high cliffs. In the hinterland is wheat-growing country. There is an interesting local museum in
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Tourism Eyre Peninsula
89 Liverpool Street
Box 1145
Port Lincoln, SA 5606
Australia
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