Murat Bay
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| Waters | Great Australian Bay | |
| Land mass | Australia (continent) | |
| Geographical location | 32 ° 7 '17 " S , 133 ° 39' 2" E | |
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| width | approx. 9 km | |
| depth | approx. 6 km | |
The Murat Bay is a bay on the coast of South Australia , Australia , approximately 400 km from Port Augusta and 500 km from Eucla away location. The almost circular bay is open to the south to the Great Australian Bay . Its entrance between Cape Thevenard in the east and the coast in the west is around five and a half kilometers wide. The bay is a little more than six kilometers deep and up to a little more than nine kilometers wide. In the southeast, the bay is closed by a narrow, three-kilometer-long peninsula and separated from the adjoining Bosanquet Bay . Together with this, Murat Bay is part of the larger Denial Bay , which extends between Cape Beaufort and Cape Vivonne, around 13 kilometers away, as well as the offshore St. Peter Island .
To the east of Murat Bay is the town of Ceduna , on the peninsula the town of Thevenard with its port, which is outside Murat Bay. To the northwest is the small town of Denial Bay , the first settlement in the Ceduna region since the 1840s. The bay can be reached via the Eyre Highway and the Flinders Highway . Various freight lines of the railway company Genesee and Wyoming Australia , on which mainly gypsum is delivered, end in Thevenard .
Murat Bay was first discovered and mapped by a European in 1802 by the explorer Matthew Flinders when he was exploring the south coast of the Australian continent. In the same year, Nicolas Baudin came on the occasion of his so-called Baudin expedition on a ship, the corvette Géographe , in the bay and named it after Jocham Murat (1767-1815), a French marshal . The Murat Hospital in Ceduna is named after him.
In the early years Denial Bay served as a transshipment point for the products of the local farmers on ships. When the tide was out , the goods were driven onto a platform by carts; At high tide , the cargo was loaded onto the ships from the platform, which is now surrounded by water.
The bay is an important area for Australian oyster farming . There is also fishing, and many tourists come to the bay to practice recreational sports, which can be found in Ceduna or Thevenard.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ceduna. In: Sydney Morning Herald. February 8, 2004, accessed December 6, 2010 .
- ↑ Denial Bay. In: Nullarbor net. Retrieved December 6, 2010 .