Wilson Bluff, Western and South Australian border

Wilson Bluff
Location of Wilson Bluff[1]

Wilson Bluff is a coastal cliff on the Australian continental coastline, extending from east of Eucla in Western Australia to south of Border Village in South Australia.[2][3][4]

It was first recorded in 1885 as Wilson Point, but was Wilson Bluff in volume one of the Australian Pilot 1914–1918 edition.[5] It is reported as being named after "Professor Wilson of Victoria" by E. A. Delisser, a surveyor employed by DeGraves and Co., a pastoral company.[1][6]

It is also known as Yirgila in South Australia.[1]

Within South Australia, it is located both within the gazetted locality of Nullarbor and within the protected area known as the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area, and also overlooks state coastal waters protected by the Great Australian Bight Marine National Park and the Far West Coast Marine Park.[7]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Search result(s) for Wilson Bluff (Record No. SA0022309) with the following layers being selected – "Suburbs and Localities" and "Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Coastline near Eucla Telegraph Station, 1900, retrieved 5 March 2017
  3. ↑ Views of Eucla : Wilson's Bluff, 1905, retrieved 5 March 2017
  4. ↑ Negative – Wilson Bluff, Western Australia, 1903, Museum Victoria, 1903, retrieved 5 March 2017
  5. ↑ Murray, Ian; Hercock, Marion; Murray, Ian; Hercock, Marion (2008), Where on the coast is that?, Hesperian Press, ISBN 978-0-85905-452-2
  6. ↑ Collins, Neville C; Collins, Neville (2008), The Nullarbor Plain : a history, Neville Collins, ISBN 978-0-9580482-3-1 page 32,33
  7. ↑ "Search result(s) for "Wilson Bluff, Clif" with the following data sets being selected – "Suburbs and Localities", "NPW and Conservation Reserve Boundaries", and "State Marine Park Network"". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 27 April 2017.

Coordinates: 31°41′13″S 129°00′40″E / 31.68694046°S 129.01117585°E / -31.68694046; 129.01117585

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