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Great Australian Bight, the Glossary

The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.^[1]

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Barwon South West (region)
Bays of Australia
Bights (geography)
Bodies of water of the Indian Ocean
Bodies of water of the Southern Ocean
Coastline of South Australia
Coastline of Western Australia
IMCRA provincial bioregions
Temperate Australasia

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.

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Australian High

The Australian High, also known as the Australian subtropical ridge, is a large, semi-permanent high pressure area or subtropical anticyclone that seasonally vacillates between the Great Australian Bight in the south to the Northern Territory in the north. Great Australian Bight and Australian High are coastline of South Australia and coastline of Western Australia.

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Australian Hydrographic Service

The Australian Hydrographic Service (formerly known as the Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service) is the Australian Commonwealth Government agency responsible for providing hydrographic services that meet Australia's obligations under the SOLAS convention and the national interest; enabling safe navigation, maritime trade and supporting protection of the marine environment.

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Australian sea lion

The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea), also known as the Australian sea-lion or Australian sealion, is a species of sea lion that is the only endemic pinniped in Australia.

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Bass Strait

Bass Strait is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). Great Australian Bight and Bass Strait are Barwon South West (region).

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Baxter Cliffs

The Baxter Cliffs is a long stretch of coastal cliff on the south coast of Western Australia.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Benthic zone

The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.

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Bight (geography)

In geography, a bight is a concave bend or curvature in a coastline, river or other geographical feature, or it may refer to a very open bay formed by such a feature. Great Australian Bight and bight (geography) are bights (geography).

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Bunda Cliffs

The Bunda Cliffs, also known as the Nullarbor Cliffs, are a coastal scarp on the southern coast of Australia, extending from the western coast of South Australia to the south-eastern corner of Western Australia. Great Australian Bight and Bunda Cliffs are coastline of South Australia.

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Cape Carnot

Cape Carnot (Cap Carnot) is a headland in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west side of the southern tip of Eyre Peninsula about south west of the city of Port Lincoln.

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Cape Grim

Cape Grim, officially Kennaook / Cape Grim, is the northwestern point of Tasmania, Australia.

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Cape Otway

Cape Otway is a cape and a bounded locality of the Colac Otway Shire in southern Victoria, Australia on the Great Ocean Road; much of the area is enclosed in the Great Otway National Park.

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Ceduna, South Australia

Ceduna is a town in South Australia located on the shores of Murat Bay on the coast, west of the Eyre Peninsula.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.

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Circumnavigation

Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).

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Coastal stingaree

The coastal stingaree (Urolophus orarius) is an uncommon species of round ray in the stingaree family, Urolophidae, that is endemic to the eastern Great Australian Bight.

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Cocklebiddy, Western Australia

Cocklebiddy is a small roadhouse community located on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia.

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Continental shelf

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.

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Crested triplefin

The crested triplefin or crested threefin (Trinorfolkia cristata) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Trinorfolkia.

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Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre (5 August 181530 November 1901) was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand's New Munster province, and Governor of Jamaica.

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Endorheic basin

An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swamps that equilibrate through evaporation.

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Eolianite

Eolianite or aeolianite is any rock formed by the lithification of sediment deposited by aeolian processes; that is, the wind.

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Equinor

Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.

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Eucla, Western Australia

Eucla is the easternmost locality in Western Australia, located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia along the Eyre Highway, approximately west of the South Australian border.

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Eyre Bird Observatory

Eyre Bird Observatory is an educational, scientific and recreational facility in the Nuytsland Nature Reserve, Western Australia.

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Eyre Highway

Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain.

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Eyre Peninsula

The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia.

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Fowlers Bay, South Australia

Fowlers Bay, formerly known as Yalata, is a bay, town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about north-west of the state capital, Adelaide.

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François Thijssen

François Thijssen or Frans Thijsz (died 13 October 1638?) was a Dutch-French explorer who explored the southern coast of Australia.

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Gawler Craton

The Gawler Craton covers approximately 440,000 square kilometres of central South Australia.

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Geology of Australia

The geology of Australia includes virtually all known rock types, spanning a geological time period of over 3.8 billion years, including some of the oldest rocks on earth.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Great Australian Bight Marine National Park

Great Australian Bight Marine National Park is a marine protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located west of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Great Australian Bight Marine Park

Great Australian Bight Marine Park is the name given to a group of marine protected areas which are located together within both Australian and South Australian jurisdictions in the Great Australian Bight and which has been in use as recently as 2005.

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Great Australian Bight Marine Park (2017)

Great Australian Bight Marine Park (formerly Great Australian Bight Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is a marine protected area located in the Great Australian Bight south of South Australia in waters within the Australian Exclusive economic zone.

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Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth waters)

Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) is a former marine protected area located in the Great Australian Bight immediately south of South Australia and its immediate onshore waters.

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Great Australian Bight Marine Park Whale Sanctuary

Great Australian Bight Marine Park Whale Sanctuary was a marine protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located immediately off the coastline of the Great Australian Bight in waters about west-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Great South Australian Coastal Upwelling System

The Great South Australian Coastal Upwelling System is a seasonal upwelling system in the eastern Great Australian Bight, extending from Ceduna, South Australia, to Portland, Victoria, over a distance of about.

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Great Southern Reef

The Great Southern Reef is a system of interconnected reefs that spans the southern coast of continental Australia and Tasmania and extends as far north as Brisbane to the east and Kalbarri to the west.

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Great Victoria Desert

The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert ecoregion and interim Australian bioregion in Western Australia and South Australia.

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Head of the Bight

Head of the Bight (also called Head of Bight) is a bay located in South Australia at the most northern extent of the Great Australian Bight. Great Australian Bight and Head of the Bight are coastline of South Australia.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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International Hydrographic Organization

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) (French: Organisation hydrographique internationale) is an intergovernmental organisation representing hydrography.

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Karst

Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

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King Island (Tasmania)

King Island is an island in the Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Mainland Australia

Mainland Australia is the main landmass of the Australian continent, excluding the Aru Islands, New Guinea, Tasmania, and other Australian offshore islands.

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Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) is the Australian Government offshore energy regulator responsible for the health and safety, well integrity and environmental management aspects of offshore oil and gas operations in Australian Commonwealth waters; and in coastal waters where regulatory powers and functions have been conferred by state governments.

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Nullarbor Plain

The Nullarbor Plain (Latin: nulla feminine of nullus 'no' and arbor 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north.

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Nuyts Archipelago

The Nuyts Archipelago is an island group located in South Australia in the Great Australian Bight to the south of the town of Ceduna on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula.

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.

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Ocean fisheries

A fishery is an area with an associated fish or aquatic population which is harvested for its commercial value.

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Oligotroph

An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients.

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Right whale

Right whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus Eubalaena: the North Atlantic right whale (E. glacialis), the North Pacific right whale (E. japonica) and the Southern right whale (E. australis).

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Roe Plains

The Roe Plains is a coastal plain in the southeastern corner of Western Australia.

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Salt lake

A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre).

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Smoky Bay, South Australia

Smoky Bay (formerly Wallanippie) is a town and locality located in the Australian state of South Australia on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula.

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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South Australian Research and Development Institute

The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) is the principal research institute of the Government of South Australia, with a network of research centres, laboratories and field sites both in metropolitan Adelaide and throughout South Australia.

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South West Cape (Tasmania)

South West Cape is a cape located at the south-west corner of Tasmania, Australia.

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Southern bluefin tuna

The southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) is a tuna of the family Scombridae found in open southern Hemisphere waters of all the world's oceans mainly between 30°S and 50°S, to nearly 60°S.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. Great Australian Bight and southern Ocean are bodies of water of the Southern Ocean.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Australian_Bight

Also known as Australian Bight, Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition, Oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight.

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See also

Barwon South West (region)

Bays of Australia

Bights (geography)

Bodies of water of the Indian Ocean

Bodies of water of the Southern Ocean

Coastline of South Australia

Coastline of Western Australia

IMCRA provincial bioregions

Temperate Australasia

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