Great Australian Bight
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The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.
Coastline of the Great Australian Bight, located near Ceduna, South Australia
The Great Australian Bight south of the Nullarbor Plain. Credit Jacques Descloitres, Visible Earth, NASA.
Great Australian Bight Marine Park, 2007
Great Australian Bight 2015
Nullarbor Plain
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The Nullarbor Plain 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 nor
Great Australian Bight
…Pasley, Western Australia, to Cape Carnot, South Australia – a distance of 1,160 kilometres (720 mi). Much of the bight lies due south of the expansive Nullarbor Plain, which straddles South Australia and Western Australia. The Eyre Highway passes close to the cliffs of the bight between the Head of the Bight and…
Nullarbor Plain, Australia
A road sign displaying the distance from Eucla and Ceduna. (Regarding the information on the road sign, this stretch of the Eyre Highway lies not in the Nullarbor Plain, but south of the plain, in the Hampton bioregion of Western Australia, on the Roe Plains, somewhere around Mundrabilla. The Nullarbor Plain stretches behind the hills or, rather, the Hampton Tableland, seen in the background).
Sign defining the edge of the plain at the western side. (This photograph depicts Nullarbor Roadhouse, seen from the west. Nullarbor Roadhouse lies on the South Australian side of the Eyre Highway, at the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain as well as Nullarbor National Park, which both extend miles farther west into Western Australian territory.)
A rainbow over the Nullarbor Plain.