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60 relations: Antarctica, Australian Hydrographic Service, Bass Strait, BBC, Benthic zone, Bight (geography), BP, Cape Carnot, Cape Grim, Cape Otway, Ceduna, South Australia, Chevron Corporation, Circumnavigation, Continent, Continental shelf, Edward John Eyre, Endorheic basin, Equinor, Eucla, Western Australia, Eyre Bird Observatory, Eyre Highway, Eyre Peninsula, François Thijssen, Geology of Australia, Gondwana, Great Australian Bight Commonwealth Marine Reserve, Great Australian Bight Marine National Park, Great Australian Bight Marine Park, Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth waters), Great Australian Bight Marine Park Whale Sanctuary, Great Victoria Desert, Head of the Bight, Indian Ocean, International Hydrographic Organization, Karst, King Island (Tasmania), Mainland Australia, Matthew Flinders, NASA, Nullarbor Plain, Ocean, Ocean fisheries, Oligotroph, Right whale, Salt lake, South Australia, South Australian Research and Development Institute, South West Cape (Tasmania), Southern bluefin tuna, Southern Ocean, ..., Southern right whale, Tasman Sea, Tasmania, The Wilderness Society (Australia), University of Leeds, Victoria (Australia), West Cape Howe National Park, Western Australia, Western Australia border, Whale watching. Expand index (10 more) »
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.
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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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Bass Strait
Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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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 or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.
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Bight (geography)
In geography, a bight is a bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
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BP
BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.
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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 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 west coast of Eyre Peninsula.
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Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.
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Circumnavigation
Circumnavigation is navigation completely around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).
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Continent
A continent is one of several very large landmasses of the world.
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Continental shelf
The continental shelf is an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea.
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Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre (5 August 1815 – 30 November 1901) was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and a controversial Governor of Jamaica.
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Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.
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Equinor
Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian 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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François Thijssen
François Thijssen or Frans Thijsz (died 13 October 1638?) was a Dutch explorer who explored the southern coast of Australia.
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Geology of Australia
The geology of Australia includes virtually all known rock types and from all geological time periods spanning over 3.8 billion years of the Earth's history.
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Gondwana
Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).
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Great Australian Bight Commonwealth Marine Reserve
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 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.
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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 is 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 Victoria Desert
The Great Victoria Desert, an interim Australian bioregion, is a sparsely populated desert area 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.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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International Hydrographic Organization
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is the inter-governmental organisation representing hydrography.
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Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble 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 land mass of the Commonwealth of Australia excluding Tasmania and other offshore islands and external territories (such as the Australian Antarctic Territory).
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Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Nullarbor Plain
The Nullarbor Plain (Latin: 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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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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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 or black 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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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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South Australia
South Australia (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 a state government funded institute with locations throughout South Australia.
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South West Cape (Tasmania)
The 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 or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
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Southern right whale
The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena.
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Tasman Sea
The Tasman Sea (Māori: Te Tai-o-Rehua) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.
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The Wilderness Society (Australia)
The Wilderness Society (TWS) is an Australian, community-based, not-for-profit non-governmental environmental advocacy organisation.
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University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a Russell Group university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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West Cape Howe National Park
West Cape Howe National Park is a national park in Western Australia, southeast of Perth.
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Western Australia
Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.
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Western Australia border
The Western Australian border was originally designated as 129th meridian east longitude (129° east).
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Whale watching
Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Australian_Bight
