Fowlers Bay, South Australia
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Fowlers Bay, formerly known as Yalata, is a bay, town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 917 kilometres north-west of the state capital, Adelaide. The town is locate
Town of Fowlers Bay
The road to Fowlers Bay
Jetty, Fowlers Bay
Cemetery, Fowlers Bay
Nuyts Archipelago
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The Nuyts Archipelago is an island group in South Australia in the Great Australian Bight, to the south of the town of Ceduna on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It consists of mostly granitic is
Fowlers Bay, South Australia
…Dutch mapping of the coast and naming features along the way, in the Investigator. He found a couple of islands charted by Thijssen and named the group Nuyts Archipelago. Edward John Eyre set up base camp here from November 1840 during his epic journeys across the Nullarbor Plain, receiving supplies at Eyre's Landing…
The archipelago is an important breeding site for white-faced storm petrels…
…short-tailed shearwaters…
…and pied oystercatchers…
…as well as Australian sea lions