Memory Cove | |
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Location in South Australia | |
Location | Eyre Peninsula, South Australia |
Coordinates | 34°57′37″S 135°59′29″E / 34.96028°S 135.99139°E[1] |
Type | Bay |
Basin countries | Australia |
Memory Cove is a bay located on the East coast of Jussieu Peninsula on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) South-East of Port Lincoln.
It is one of the natural features named by Matthew Flinders in memory of the eight crew who were lost on a cutter that capsized sometime after being launched from HM Sloop Investigator to search for water on 21 February 1802.[2][3]
Since 2004, the coastline enclosing the bay has been part of the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area.[3]