Eyre Peninsula
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Key facts
- Country
- Australia
- State
- South Australia
- Region
- Eyre Western , Far North
- Lga
- See Local government areas
- State electorate
- Flinders , Giles
- Federal division
- Grey
- Total
- 170,500 km (65,800 sq mi)
- Density
- 0.3443/km (0.8917/sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north.
Earlier called Eyre's Peninsula, it was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who explored parts of the peninsula in 1839–41. The coastline was first charted by the expeditions of Matthew Flinders in 1801–02 and French explorer Nicolas Baudin around the same time. Flinders also named the nearby Yorke's Peninsula and Spencer's Gulph on the same voyage.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eyre Peninsula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.