Everything about The Spencer Gulf totally explained
The
Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of
Australia, in the state of
South Australia, facing the
Great Australian Bight. The Gulf is 322
km (200
mi) long and 129 km (80 mi) wide at its mouth. The western shore of the Gulf is the
Eyre Peninsula, while the eastern side is the
Yorke Peninsula, which separates it from the smaller
Gulf St. Vincent. The largest towns on the gulf are
Whyalla,
Port Pirie, and
Port Augusta. Among smaller towns on the gulf are
Wallaroo and
Port Broughton.
The gulf was named Spencer's Gulph by explorer
Matthew Flinders in
1802, after
George John Spencer, the 2nd
Earl Spencer, an ancestor of
Diana, Princess of Wales. Today "Spencer Gulf" is usual. The gulf was also named Golfe Bonaparte by
Nicholas Baudin at roughly the same time as Flinders, but the name didn't catch (others, like the
Fleurieu Peninsula, did).
The area was
first explored on land by
Edward John Eyre in 1839 and 1840-41. Settlement of the shores of the Gulf began in the late 1840s.
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